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While debugging some problems on the HaikuPorts build VMs, mmlr noticed their clocks had an alarming amount of drift. This prompted an investigation into TSC calibration mechanisms, and the discovery that there is a VM-specific one which we did not implement. This mechanism is more accurate than counting cycles on VMs where cycles can be "stolen" (the probable cause of the aforementioned clock drift.) Tested in VMware (works out of the box) and on QEMU/KVM (may need TSC frequency specified or a host with invariant TSC.) Change-Id: I4ccfdb2e4e2621404ec9026e7106c02bf96faf18 Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/7063 Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>
Haiku
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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
Goals
- Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
- Clean, clear, concise code.
- Unified desktop environment.
Trying Haiku
Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and release images. Haiku is compatible with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of the "Emulating Haiku" guides.
Compiling Haiku
See ReadMe.Compiling.
Contributing
Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers, (technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!
Contributing code
If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the patch submitting guidelines.
If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use one of our web-based source code browsers:
- https://xref.landonf.org/ (OpenGrok, provided by Landon Fuller)
- https://git.haiku-os.org/ (git, provided by Haiku, Inc.)
Contributing documentation
The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found
in the tree at docs/user). Just find an undocumented class, write
documentation for it, and submit a patch.
Contributing translations
See wiki:i18n.
Contributing software ports
See HaikuPorts.
Contributing to our infrastructure
See Infrastructure.