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