Genode OS Framework version 18.02 released

2018-02-28 Thread Norman Feske
Hereby, I proudly announce the release of Genode 18.02, which features the first revision of Sculpt OS, which is the Genode-based operating system that our team at Genode Labs has been using for several months now. For the release, we have taken the time to polish and document it so that like-minde

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 17.11 released

2017-11-30 Thread Christian Helmuth
Not one major feature but many small improvements regarding the interactive use come with new version 17.11 of Genode. Driven by our endeavor to use Genode as secure and robust working platform in the Genode Labs team, we smoothened great many rough edges. On the path, the system got a completely r

Genode OS Framework version 17.08 released

2017-08-30 Thread Norman Feske
I am happy to announce the version 17.08 of the Genode OS Framework. After the huge infrastructural changes of the previous two releases, we took the current release cycle as an opportunity to let things settle down and concentrate on Genode Labs' internal continuous-integration infrastru

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-07 Thread Chris Rothrock
I'm currently in the process of a full recompile right now testing out your latest suggestions. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks! Chris On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Alexander Boettcher < alexander.boettc...@genode-labs.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On 06.06.2017 23:02, Chris Rothrock wrote

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-07 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, On 06.06.2017 23:02, Chris Rothrock wrote: > The AMD issue aside, with 17.05 I can't get VirtualBox to work at all now. > I have tried clean download and compiles but after the boot process, the > VirtualBox module is now not displaying anything. I have tried with and > without the gui, Vi

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-06 Thread Chris Rothrock
I'm not seeing which framebuffer driver is being used. I am looking at the virtualbox.run and I see nit_fb, fb_drv, fb_sdl but I do not see anything specifically stating "intel" or "vesa". I just ran another complete compile (fresh compile on 17.05) using the virtualbox.run recipe. I can get thi

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-01 Thread Nobody III
Are you using vesa_drv or intel_fb_drv? If you're using intel_fb_drv, that's your problem. If not, I can try running a basic Genode system on my AMD CPU & GPU desktop, and tell you whether it works for me. On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Chris Rothrock wrote: > Any laptop or PC I compile Genode

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-01 Thread Chris Rothrock
Any laptop or PC I compile Genode on that has an Intel CPU works fine for the framebuffer. Any PC or laptop I compile Genode on that has an AMD CPU the framebuffer doesn't work. So far from what we have been able to determine is there is not support for AMD's framebuffering and any sort of intera

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-01 Thread Norman Feske
Hi Chris, > 1. Does this release port in the newest seL4 kernel (4.4) or still the > 4.3.2? The update of seL4 is scheduled for version 17.08. Please see our road map [1] for our planning. [1] http://genode.org/about/road-map > 2. Is there framebuffer support for AMD processors (if not, is ther

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-06-01 Thread Chris Rothrock
ust released the version 17.05 of the Genode OS Framework. According > to our road map, this version is designated as a suitable basis for > development branches to be maintained over a longer period of time. With > this goal in mind, the release cycle was focused on wrapping up our

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-05-31 Thread Norman Feske
Hi Ben, On 31.05.2017 19:01, Nobody III wrote: > With this new release, can init provide child services to its siblings, > or just to its children? yes, init is now able to provide services to its siblings. For details, please refer to the corresponding section [1] of the release notes. To see th

Re: Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-05-31 Thread Nobody III
With this new release, can init provide child services to its siblings, or just to its children? On May 31, 2017 8:59 AM, "Norman Feske" wrote: We just released the version 17.05 of the Genode OS Framework. According to our road map, this version is designated as a suitable

Genode OS Framework version 17.05 released

2017-05-31 Thread Norman Feske
We just released the version 17.05 of the Genode OS Framework. According to our road map, this version is designated as a suitable basis for development branches to be maintained over a longer period of time. With this goal in mind, the release cycle was focused on wrapping up our great API

Genode OS Framework version 17.02 released

2017-02-28 Thread Norman Feske
I am happy to announce the release of Genode 17.02. Among the highlights of the new version are the introduction of Genode's ABI, init's new ability to the change a running subsystem on the fly, and a greatly improved VFS infrastructure that has been in the works for more than a year. As usual, all

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 16.11 released

2016-11-30 Thread Christian Helmuth
In the new release, we revisited the most fundamental aspect of the framework - the interplay between parent and child components. We replaced the fully synchronous model of communication in this constellation by asynchronous communication to vastly improve scalability and reduce the effort of thor

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 16.08 released

2016-08-31 Thread Christian Helmuth
This release is packed with lots of improvements in areas ranging from extended base-platform support over networking and virtualization to new tools for statistical profiling. We quite proudly announce extended support for the seL4 kernel as a platform for dynamic and interactive Genode scenarios

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 16.05 released

2016-05-27 Thread Christian Helmuth
The central aspect of the current release is the fundamental renovation of our base API. The API gradually evolved over the years since 2006 while we gained a wealth of experience with a wide range of usage scenarios and their requirements. We eventually realized that the need for fundamental chang

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 16.02 released

2016-02-26 Thread Norman Feske
I am happy to announce the release of Genode 16.02. The highlights of the new version are the addition of RISC-V architecture support, the ability to securely assign USB devices to VirtualBox instances, and the update of the Muen separation kernel and the seL4 microkernel. The summary of the change

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.11 released

2015-11-30 Thread Christian Helmuth
The current release focuses on Genode as a desktop operating system and brings lots of improvements in the whole software stack in this regard. On the lower end, we ported the Intel graphics adapter driver from Linux, which enables the use of multiple displays and dynamically configure the screen r

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.08 released

2015-10-06 Thread Vincent Digital
Hi, Can anyone help out. I'm trying to create the Turmvilla scenario on my Lenovo X201 By following the setup file as compiled by@cproc : https://github.com/cproc/genode/blob/vbox_vm_linux/doc/virtualbox_setup.txt I'm trying to understand these parts of the instructions, a

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.08 released

2015-09-01 Thread Vincent Digital
Hi, Alex, Thanks for the pointer. Will try it out. Regards. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Alexander Boettcher < alexander.boettc...@genode-labs.com> wrote: > Hello, > > it is documented here: > > https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/1552 > > Cheers, > > Alex. > > On 01.09.2015 05:12, V

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.08 released

2015-09-01 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, it is documented here: https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/1552 Cheers, Alex. On 01.09.2015 05:12, Vincent Digital wrote: > Hi, congratulations to the release of 15.08 and with it, the use of > Genode/Nova as a day-to-day operating system. > I'm interested to build the same to e

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.08 released

2015-08-31 Thread Vincent Digital
Hi, congratulations to the release of 15.08 and with it, the use of Genode/Nova as a day-to-day operating system. I'm interested to build the same to explore the robustness of Genode - could you advise which "run" file is used to create the Genode version that Norman is using ? Thanks. On Mon, Au

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.08 released

2015-08-31 Thread Christian Helmuth
The current release is characterized by our efforts to use Genode as day-to-day operating system. From this background, we packed quite a few improvements regarding user GUI experience, VirtualBox robustness and performance, integration of native Genode applications and guest OSes as well as tools

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.05 released

2015-05-26 Thread Norman Feske
I am happy to announce the version 15.05 of the Genode OS Framework, which represents the most comprehensive release in our history. Its most visible feature is a completely new written documentation in book form. On the technical side, the highlights of the release are: - Comprehensive

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 15.02 released

2015-02-27 Thread Christian Helmuth
According to our road map, the overall theme of 2015 is the consolidation and cultivation of the existing feature set rather than the conquering of new grounds. Along these lines, the current release brings with virtualization support on ARM one prominent feature but plenty of changes regarding tes

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.11 released

2014-11-28 Thread Christian Helmuth
With this year's November release we close one of the last functional gaps to employ Genode as day-to-day operating system on modern laptops. The support for Intel WiFi hardware incl. WPA comes as a component that just snaps in place beside out support for wired NICs. The second major improvement i

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.08 released

2014-08-28 Thread Christian Helmuth
The main theme of Genode 14.08 is the new GUI architecture that scales to modern flexible and dynamic GUIs but also maintains the strong security of the nitpicker approach. Also, the release further improves virtualization on the NOVA microhypervisor with SMP support in Seoul and networking in Virt

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.05 released

2014-05-29 Thread Christian Helmuth
Hello Lonnie, thanks for the compliment. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:56:58AM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > I was just wondering if the network functionality for Virtualbox was also > in place as well so that guest OS's can connect to the Internet? > > If that is working then I would like to t

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.05 released

2014-05-29 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, Looks like some really fine work has been done for the latest Genode 14.05 release. I was just wondering if the network functionality for Virtualbox was also in place as well so that guest OS's can connect to the Internet? If that is working then I would like to try and build NOVA

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.05 released

2014-05-29 Thread Christian Helmuth
Genode 14.05 comes with a strong focus on framework scalability. We extend our C runtime with per-process virtual file system support. Now, programs seamlessly integrate with separate file-system services to distinct concerns like web-server configuration and data. Also, we introduce a new concept

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-03-05 Thread Norman Feske
Hi Lonnie, > In my case, I am currently focused on having NOVA+Genode+VirtualBox in a > type of updated version of the NOVA v0.3 demo, but to spawn off VirtualBox > instances and have a graphical Tutor section for a Type-1 Hypervisor that > "might" be able to compete with the other existing Type-1

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-03-04 Thread Christian Helmuth
Hello Lonnie, to answer your embedded question ;-) On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:57:04PM -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > One question on this. When I am in my build directory and have done the make > prepare for VB. What is the "make" command to just make > Genode+NOVA+VirtualBox as it seems that

RE: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-03-03 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
14 7:14 AM To: genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released Hi Lonnie, I agree on the points you made for making Genode more popular. The live system will certainly raise much more awareness of our project than the regular releases

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-03-02 Thread Norman Feske
Hi Daniel, thanks for tuning in! Good to know how we caught your attention in the first place. > I'd support Lonie's comments about the importance of a live CD. Of > course we picked up Genode and did the whole build, but the first > exploration we did was the live CD. I know of people in other

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-03-02 Thread Norman Feske
Hi Lonnie, I agree on the points you made for making Genode more popular. The live system will certainly raise much more awareness of our project than the regular releases. However, I see popularity as a two-sided sword. Of course, getting more attention increases the chance for more people joini

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-02-28 Thread Daniel Waddington
Hi, I'd support Lonie's comments about the importance of a live CD. Of course we picked up Genode and did the whole build, but the first exploration we did was the live CD. I know of people in other companies who abandoned Genode because of the apparent difficulty of use. You need express pizazz

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Lindener
Christian- Wow, Thanks... this certainly gets me thinking that it's time to learn to build up a Genode based system on my (little, 4GigByte) AMD E2 based laptop... I realize things might get a bit cramped... but I already run Win7 under Virtual box, hosted via Ubuntu 13.04... Not so incl

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-02-28 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hi Norman, Thanks for the quick reply and for the link to the LiveCD discussion. I can see that once there is a LiveCD out to show the new feature like Virtualbox then that will definitely promote more popularity as most people like to see things in action before diving into the code. I have foun

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-02-28 Thread Norman Feske
Thanks Lonnie for your feedback! > This is wonderful news about the latest Genode 14.02 with all of these > great improvements. > > I saw the sources out at sourceforge, but was also wondering if there > was a livecd or democd available so that I could explore some of these > new things before h

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-02-28 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, This is wonderful news about the latest Genode 14.02 with all of these great improvements. I saw the sources out at sourceforge, but was also wondering if there was a livecd or democd available so that I could explore some of these new things before having to go through the build

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 14.02 released

2014-02-28 Thread Christian Helmuth
Just now, we released a fresh version of Genode, which focuses on storage and virtualization. With this release, we bring block-device access and file-system support on the next level paving the way to use Genode as general-purpose OS. The port of VirtualBox adds support for a wide range of guest O

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 13.11 released

2013-11-28 Thread Christian Helmuth
Today we are happy to announce a fresh release of Genode, which is the 22nd release of the framework since the first version in August 2008. In the box this time is a good deal of new features and changes ranging from the base framework over platform support to applications and libraries: - Base

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 13.08 released

2013-08-15 Thread Christian Helmuth
We are proud to announce the fifth-anniversary release of the Genode OS Framework. This version brings three major features: Qt5 support, enhanced support for multi-processor platforms, and light-weight event tracing build into the base framework. Short overview of the current release: - Qt5

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 13.05 released

2013-05-30 Thread Christian Helmuth
We are happy to announce the new release of the Genode OS Framework. The focus of our work in the past three months was on consolidation and optimization of the current feature set and extension of our support for embedded SoCs. The highlights of the fresh release are: - Tooling for automated

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 13.02 released

2013-02-28 Thread Norman Feske
I am delighted to announce the release of Genode version 13.02. The overall theme of this version is improving the framework's platform support. This is most prominently visible in the form of the many NOVA-specific improvements and the addition of the Cortex-A15-based Exynos 5250 SoC. But those ar

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.11 released

2012-11-29 Thread Christian Helmuth
Today, we are happy to announce the new version of the Genode OS Framework, which denotes an important landmark: the ability to build Genode within the Genode environment leaving aside any kind of virtualization. And of course, there a many more improvements to explore in the fresh release

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.08 released

2012-08-23 Thread Norman Feske
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

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.05 released

2012-06-04 Thread Norman Feske
Hi Naveen, > Is there GCC compiler in Genode-12-05. yes, version 12.05 comes with a simple test that runs GCC on Genode. For more details, please refer to the "Noux" section of the release notes: http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/12.05#Noux Please note that this is just a first te

Re: Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.05 released

2012-05-31 Thread naveen chaubey
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Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.05 released

2012-05-30 Thread Norman Feske
The version 12.05 of the Genode OS Framework has just been released. It comes with a huge number of new features ranging from file-system infrastructure, over a USB stack, to the ability to execute the GNU tool chain including GCC, binutils, and GNU make on a variety of microkernels supported by

Re: Genode OS Framework

2012-02-29 Thread Norman Feske
Hello, > _/Congrats .. > Great work Kudos :) Thanks for your nice words! > Any ideas when the updates to the live images will be available?? > (easier to test :P)/_ We are indeed planning to publish a new live image. There is no definite release date though. > But you guys missed somethings(a

Genode OS Framework

2012-02-29 Thread spicykappella Gmail
*"I am happy to announce the version 12.02 of the Genode OS Framework. This release is something special because it represents the first version conducted with our new open development process."* _/Congrats .. Great work Kudos :) Any ideas when the updates to the live images will be

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 12.02 released

2012-02-28 Thread Norman Feske
I am happy to announce the version 12.02 of the Genode OS Framework. This release is something special because it represents the first version conducted with our new open development process. The framework's additions and improvements were primarily motivated by our road map for 2012. For ex

Fwd: [Microkernel-devroom] [TALK-PROPOSAL] Introduction of the Genode OS Framework

2011-12-19 Thread Norman Feske
ction of the Genode OS Framework Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:55:50 +0100 From: Norman Feske Reply-To: Multiserver, microkernel-based operating systems devroom mailing list. To: Multiserver, microkernel-based operating systems devroom mailing list. Dear devroom participants, Here is my

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 11.11 released

2011-11-29 Thread Norman Feske
I am very happy to announce the release of Genode version 11.11. With this version, we explored various opportunities to combine the Genode architecture with virtualization techniques. The topics range from enabling faithful virtualization of x86 PC hardware, over paravirtualized Android, to our cu

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 11.08 released

2011-08-17 Thread Stefan Kalkowski
The 11.08 release brings unified workflows for all base platforms with a streamlined tooling support, enhanced documentation, and a new quality-assurance infrastructure as well as some functional additions. With the version 11.08, the framework relieves the burden of using distinct base platforms

Third anniversary of the Genode OS Framework

2011-07-28 Thread Norman Feske
Dear Genode Community, it has been almost three years ago when we published the first version of the Genode OS Framework. Since then, our ongoing commitment and dedication to bring forward this technology has proven our project to be sustaining and constantly evolving. Moreover, to our delight

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 11.05 released

2011-05-26 Thread Norman Feske
The version 11.05 of the Genode OS Framework has just been published and brings along many new things to explore. Our work on this release was motivated by two main goals, advancing the degree of support for the platforms introduced with the previous release and reconsidering one of the most

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 11.02 released

2011-02-24 Thread Norman Feske
We are happy to announce the release of the version 11.02 of the Genode OS Framework. The development is this version was primarily focused on further expanding the platform support of the framework. We are excited about the following three significant improvements in this area. First, we

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 10.11 released

2010-11-30 Thread Christian Helmuth
We are pleased to announce the release 10.11 of the Genode OS Framework. This release focuses on new features presented on the Genode Live CD two weeks ago http://genode.org/download/live-cds and includes many improvements behind the scenes. Release-notes summary for version 10.11

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 10.08 released

2010-08-11 Thread Stefan Kalkowski
We are happy to announce release 10.08 of the Genode OS Framework. This new version brings support for hardware accelarated graphics and wireless networking. The release introduces the Gallium3D software stack alongside the Intel graphics execution manager, which can be used by Genode

Re: Second anniversary of the Genode OS Framework

2010-08-10 Thread Norman Feske
Hello, we recently announced the celebration of the second Genode anniversary on 12th of August. Originally, our plan was to gather at a nice location near the river Elbe. But because the current flooding and the uncertain weather conditions on Thursday, we relocate the barbecue to a place in safe

Second anniversary of the Genode OS Framework

2010-07-23 Thread Norman Feske
Hi there, the upcoming version 10.08 of the Genode OS Framework will be the 8th release since the initial publication two years ago in August 2008. We invite you to celebrate its second anniversary together with us. As last year, we will gather for a barbecue and a campfire at the river Elbe in

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 10.05 released

2010-05-27 Thread Norman Feske
We are happy to announce the new version 10.05 of the Genode OS Framework. This version brings many functional improvements, most notably a new configuration concept that allows for the definition of arbitrary client-server relationships and least-privilege policies. We also want to highlight the

The new release 10.02 of the Genode OS Framework is available

2010-02-24 Thread Norman Feske
The release 10.02 again broadens the field of applications for Genode by introducing support for two new kernels: the Codezero kernel and the NOVA hypervisor. The former is primarily targeted at ARM platforms, the latter at x86 virtualization. Moreover, we introduced a management concept for real-t

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 9.11 released

2009-11-25 Thread Stefan Kalkowski
The new release 9.11 of the Genode OS Framework is available. The current release comprises a whole bunch of new functionality with respect to libraries, OS services and device drivers, like the Light-weight IP stack, Qt4 Webkit and USB storage, just to mention a few. Moreover, we incorporated

Announcement: Genode OS Framework version 9.08 released

2009-08-19 Thread Norman Feske
The new release 9.08 of the Genode OS Framework is available. With this release, we focused on replacing several interim solutions with much improved new implementations. In particular, we want to highlight the new synchronization mechanisms, the new timer service, and our effort to unify former