After successfully getting Mesa’s software-based Lavapipe Vulkan implementation building on Haiku last month along with related Mesa code for headless support, a developer independent of AMD has started work on porting the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” to Haiku.
Haiku developer “X512” has been spending the past number of weeks so far trying to get the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver stack working on this BeOS-inspired platform. This would be the first major Vulkan driver working for Haiku though there is also interest in getting the open-source Intel Vulkan driver working there too.
This is exciting work, but still early days.
I’m so excited for this! I use Haiku in a VM nowadays, but does it still currently only have support for the VESA-only 4:3 ratio screen resolutions?
When running Haiku natively on my laptop and desktop PC it gets the 1366×768 and 1440×900 resolutions right.
I used to be able to run Haiku at 4K in a VM, now I can’t. Qemu, Virtual Box, VNWare Fusion all the same.
That was a few years ago. Dunno if it’s me or Haiku that is the problem but never looked into it too deeply. I should do at some point I guess.
The current VESA driver for Haiku supports widescreen resolutions, and I’ve had it running at 2560×1440 on bare metal with a recent Intel GPU. No acceleration of course, but it’s good enough for basic tasks and dogfooding the OS.