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Augustin Cavalier fb00a65fc6 freebsd11_network: Avoid triggering timer interrupts 1000 times/sec. FreeBSD's "ticks" has a granularity of whatever "hz" is, presently 1000. It's declared as "extern int32" in FreeBSD's codebase, as it's the defining unit of time for most operations. We just use system_time() for essentially the same purpose, which requires no hard-clock timer interrupts at all, and so Colin seems to have decided to emulate "ticks" by just triggering a timer once per millisecond and then incrementing the "ticks" variable. 1000 timer interrupts per second is quite a lot (assuming the kernel actually combined these between drivers, otherwise it would be 1000 per driver), and probably a contributor to Haiku's not-so-great battery performance on most laptops.		2018-10-31 19:03:40 -04:00
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ReadMe.md

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 OpenGrok servers:

http://xref.plausible.coop/ (provided by Landon Fuller)
http://code.metager.de/source/xref/haiku (provided by MetaGer)

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.