Hello everyone,
thanks for all your contributions to the upcoming roadmap so far. And I wish you a happy new year 2025!
Looking back at last years roadmap discussion and the actual work I was doing that year, I hesitate to do any further proposals. Most of the ideas that I mentioned last time, which finally entered the roadmap, were not realized by me, or others, like the plugable USB-Host driver, multi-component E-mail client, easy to bootstrap Linux VMs on ARM, or the re-newal of the base-hw scheduler. Although the last point was started enthusiastically by Johannes and me, the implementation finally got superseded by maintainance, support issues, and lots of driver updates and driver portings. Hereby, as a highlight and with the help of my colleagues I could enable my new Framework 13 laptop (Meteorlake inside) as my daily work driver.
Considering the already mentioned directions, I like to strengthen Norman's proposal to concentrate on performance and optimization to enable other native dynamic workloads on Sculpt. Personally, I like to push base-hw's performance (e.g. scheduler work), remove known shortcomings, and enable it on newer hardware (e.g. Meteorlake). Having the hardware-independent USB multiplexer is still on my wish-list to push the dynamic hardware restart-abilities resp. suspend/resume potential. I also would like to take the last step of re-using one USB-device by different drivers, e.g. a USB headset with audio and HID functionality. Although, everything is in place to do so, final steps in the USB clients have to be taken. But I realize that I start to itemize ambitious goals again that probably get pushed aside by other needs, therefore I better stop now ;-).
Best regards Stefan