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Genode OS Framework release 17.08 | 2017-08-30
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| Version 17.08 enables hardware-accelerated graphics on Intel-Gen8 GPUs
| and expands Genode's seL4-kernel support to the ARM and 64-bit x86
| architectures. Further topics are UEFI boot, VFS enhancements such as a
| new FatFS plugin, and the use of Genode as Xen DomU.
The new release bears the fruit of our long-term investigation of
hardware-accelerated graphics on modern Intel platforms that we conducted over
the past year. The result is a brand new low-complexity GPU multiplexer that
is designed after microkernel principles. With far less than 10K lines of
code, it paves the ground for leveraging the power of GPUs at an extremely
tiny footprint on the trusted computing base. The GPU multiplexer is
accompanied with the matching application-side library infrastructure such as
Mesa, libdrm, Qt5 bindings, SDL bindings. This allows Genode components to use
the GPU with standard APIs like OpenGL.
The seL4 microkernel is becoming more and more popular. Since about one year,
most Genode scenarios are able to use this kernel on the 32-bit x86
architecture. The growing interest in the combination of seL4 with Genode
prompted us to expand the architecture support to ARM and 64-bit x86 now.
Additionally, we enabled SMP on x86, priority support, and Genode's CPU-time
monitoring facility on this kernel.
Speaking of Genode's underlying kernels, the current release equips NOVA,
seL4, and our custom base-hw kernel with UEFI-boot support. It updates the
Muen separation kernel to a current version, and adds the ability to run
Genode as Xen DomU domains.
These and the many more topics of the new version are covered by the
[https:/documentation/release-notes/17.08 - release documentation of version 17.08...]
Genode OS Framework release 17.05 | 2017-05-31
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