We just released Genode version 20.11 today. With this version, we continue this year's overarching theme of supporting 64-bit ARM hardware. Thanks to intensive work on the framework's driver infrastructure and the actual device drivers, Sculpt OS has now become able to run on 64-bit ARM hardware, specifically the NXP i.MX8 EVK board.
A second highlight of this release is the first version of our new CPU-load balancing mechanism, which aims at improving the CPU utilization when running complex multi-threaded workloads like a web browser on top of Genode.
As with every Genode release, these major highlights are accompanied by many improvements throughout the framework, as listed here:
- CPU-load balancing - Sculpt OS on 64-bit ARM hardware (i.MX8 EVK) - Multicore virtualization on ARM - VFS: Open Sound System ioctl emulation - VirtIO networking - Improved support for OpenBSD audio drivers - HWP support for recent PC hardware - NOVA: I/O-MMU support for AMD
Please find the detailed release documentation at:
https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/20.11
Cheers Norman