Midsummer - there couldn't be a better time for releasing a new version
of Genode. Among the highlights of version 12.08 are a new base platform
that enables the framework to run on bare ARM hardware without a
separate kernel, the largely reworked support for the NOVA hypervisor,
and comprehensive device drivers for OMAP4-based hardware platforms.
Quick overview of the changes that come with version 12.08:
- Base platforms
- New base-hw platform for running the framework on
bare ARM hardware
- NOVA support for x86_64, object integrity protection,
core-only kernel-resource allocation
- New OMAP4 SoC device drivers
- HDMI output
- SD-card
- USB HID
- Networking
- New FFAT-based file-system service
- New TAR file-system service
- Improved Noux runtime
- New port of the Lynx web browser
- Shell scripting support
- 3rd-party libraries
- New ports of openssl, pcre, expat
- MPC, libgmp for x86_64 and ARM
- lwIP updated to version 1.4.1-rc1
- New port of the lighttpd web server
Those and many more improvements are described in full detail in the
release notes:
http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/12.08
Have fun with exploring the new version!
Norman
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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs
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Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth
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