A GSoC 2026 student introduction post by Leo Rouleau, a first-year software engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal. The project aims to expand Haiku OS's Devices application into a full hardware manager. Planned features include driver mapping with paths, graphical driver state management and blacklisting, deep USB and Bluetooth device inspection, hardware compatibility report export, and a bug tracker shortcut that pre-fills hardware specs into Haiku's Trac bugtracker.
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[GSoC 2026] Expanding the functionality of the Haiku Devices ApplicationIntroductionProject OverviewGoalsConclusionSort: