Hello Pirmin,
happy to read your positive review of the past year. I already noticed with delight that Alice will present the TPM work at FOSDEM [1]. Very cool!
[1] https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4140-trusted-boot-with-th...
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.
That's all the better. It sounds perfect that our goals are so nicely aligned. From the feedback so far, I sense that the focus on rigidity, clarity, and performance resonates quite well with the community at large. So this will probably become our overarching theme for 2025.
Should me manage to bring the performance of native dynamic workloads (e.g. using the tool chain via Goa directly on Sculpt OS) to a practically enjoyable level, I would call the year a resounding success.
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.
Just out of curiosity, with more hardware, do refer to i.MX-based boards or are there other SoC families on your radar as well?
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.
Thanks for sharing these plans. I very much appreciate these considerations of your team.
- We accompany a master's thesis at ETH Zurich that aims to introduce
fuzzy testing on the session level to Genode.
Given this background, the recent discussion on the forum [2] makes a lot of sense. Welcome smhm!
[2] https://genode.discourse.group/t/trying-to-compile-and-run-core-with-a-custo...
All the best for your team in 2025!
Norman