Haiku OS Improves Its FreeBSD/OpenBSD Network Driver Compatibility Layer
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has published their September 2025 progress report to outline recent work on this open-source OS.
Haiku OS continues seeing an assortment of improvements to its applications and kits. Plus driver activity remains healthy from various fixes to various tweaks and enhancing logging and error handling.
September wasn't the most noteworthy month for the project's changes in recent times but one of the changes standing out are enhancements to their FreeBSD and OpenBSD network driver compatibility layer. Improvements made will help allow Haiku to be able to leverage the BSD drivers beyond just USB and PCI interfaces.
The monthly progress report explains:
Haiku OS continues seeing an assortment of improvements to its applications and kits. Plus driver activity remains healthy from various fixes to various tweaks and enhancing logging and error handling.
September wasn't the most noteworthy month for the project's changes in recent times but one of the changes standing out are enhancements to their FreeBSD and OpenBSD network driver compatibility layer. Improvements made will help allow Haiku to be able to leverage the BSD drivers beyond just USB and PCI interfaces.
The monthly progress report explains:
"waddlesplash refactored device attach glue code in the FreeBSD/OpenBSD network driver compatibility layer, cleaning up how the “MII” network bus drivers are attached, and potentially paving the way for supporting more than just PCI and USB drivers in the compatibility layer (e.g. FDT support should now be much easier to implement than it would’ve been before)."Those wanting to learn about the latest work on Haiku OS can do so via the progress report on Haiku-OS.org.