Dear Norman and fellow Genodians,
After posting my personal goals for 2025, here is the response from
Gapfruit's perspective.
2024 has been an exciting year for Gapfruit.
In 2024, we collaborated with Genode Labs to enable the BSP for the
powerful i.MX8MP SoC from NXP. We continued our work on the TPM stack by
designing different Genode components that act as pluggable building
blocks to improve the guarantees of trustworthiness even when
considering physical attacks. One aspect of this work was to enable the
TPM2-TSS stack, which depends on OpenSSL > 3.0. Therefore, we
contributed OpenSSL 3 to Genodelabs (PR pending). We further improved
our test infrastructure [1].
As with every year, we at Gapfruit eagerly follow the sharing of
ambitions and goals of other Genode enthusiasts. This year is no
different. What sparked our interest was the discussion Norman started
regarding offloading apps out of VMs to pure Genode components. When we
discuss potential migration paths with our customers from legacy systems
to a more resilient and trustworthy future, we strive to find solutions
that don't require VMs. We are willing to collaborate towards any
efforts that streamline the building and running of existing code bases
on top of Genode systems - namely improving Goa, libc, and vfs. Speaking
of Goa, the work of Johannes regarding remote debugging via the Goa
testbed is exceptionally cool, and we are very interested in helping get
Rust async support mentioned by Benjamin. Also, the topic of IDE
integration that John mentioned sparked our interest.
Our challenges in 2025 will be to support more hardware from different
hardware vendors and work with various external customers and partners
that build on our product.
We see a rising need to deal with different API and ABI versions for the
latter challenge, especially when our partners write and deploy their
applications and subsystems.
Our plans for 2025 can be summarized as follows:
- We plan to create a Gapfruit Community Git repository containing
various components, starting with the TPM stack.
- We plan to make our measured boot and trusted boot implementation
available through the Gapfruit Community repos or by contribution once
they have reached maturity.
- We accompany a master's thesis at ETH Zurich that aims to introduce
fuzzy testing on the session level to Genode.
Cheers,
The Gapfurit Team
[1] http://genodians.org/trimpim/2024-09-25-testing-device_control
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