A developer shares progress on porting Haiku OS to arm64 architecture, with the long-term goal of running it on an M1 MacBook Air. As of hrev59575, the port runs in QEMU with mostly stable behavior including virtio SCSI, virtio net, xHCI USB, and up to 8-core SMP support. Known issues include at least one kernel crash and some double frees. Software port compatibility also needs work. Instructions for bootstrapping Haiku to try it are referenced.
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