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Genode OS Framework release 14.11 | 2014-11-28
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| With the availability of the Intel wireless stack in version 14.11,
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| we close one of the last functional gaps to use Genode on modern laptops.
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| Further highlights of the new version are the trading of CPU resources
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| between subsystems on top of our custom HW kernel, VirtualBox 4.3.16,
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| a new dynamic linker, and networking on the Raspberry Pi.
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Early on our long way towards the use of Genode as a general-purpose OS, we
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identified wireless networking as a crucial functionality. For a long time,
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however, we feared the topic because WiFi driver stacks are known to be
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extremely complex. In spring this year, we have finally started to port the
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Intel wireless stack from Linux to Genode. With the current release, we are
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proud to present the outcome of this activity as a new component on Genode.
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As the second major improvement of the new version, we added a new scheduler
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to our custom HW kernel that allows us to trade CPU resources between Genode
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subsystems, similarly to how memory is managed on Genode. Furthermore, the new
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version comes with an upgrade of VirtualBox on NOVA to version 4.3.16 along
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with profound stability improvements, a new dynamic linker with a complexity
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of less than 20% of the old one, added networking support for the Raspberry
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Pi, and new GUI components.
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The story behind our work on the WiFi stack as well as detailed information
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about all the other improvements are provided by the
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[http:/documentation/release-notes/14.11 - release documentation of version 14.11...]
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