Hi all,
On 12/26/22 4:58 PM, Norman Feske wrote:
What about you?
How did you perceive the Genode year 2022?
The first part of the year was dominated by project work and took me quite some time to re-port the Intel display driver based on the new dde_linux update. The re-testing across several hardware generations of notebooks and diverse monitors took its time. Further topics have been ACPI suspend&resume support for Genode@NOVA, Intel Gen12 P & E core detection, more CPU support (up to 256) and ongoing work on ACPI suspend and resume for Genode's base-hw kernel.
What directions are you most excited about?
Privately, most exciting was that the Seoul VMM is now enjoyable on a day-to-day basis, because of the way better integration with Sculpt thanks to the new Virtio model support for gpu, input and audio. With that I have an enjoyable and maintainable and easy and quick upgradable path for up-to-date Firefox and Thunderbird VMs on Sculpt. Beside that, I worked on several proof of concept topics to improve further life on Sculpt, e.g. dynamic CPU power & frequency adjustments and monitoring for Intel HWP (work notebook) and AMD p-states (home desktop), with which one can steer indirectly the fan noise. The other life improvement was the principle support of the Intel Display Driver (as proof of concept) to support beside the mirror mode also the extended mode, to have one large screen across several attached monitors.
Which topics do you deem as interesting to explore yourself? Do you already happen to have rough plans about 2023?
- Continuing support for ACPI suspend & resume to Genode' base-hw (x86_64) - Device & driver restart and/or resume support after ACPI wakeup -> precondition for advanced/useful scenarios like Sculpt OS (x86) - native Qemu port for cross architecture development - Further Seoul VMM cultivation - AMD display and GPU support - make some proof of concept work ready for Genode upstream
Cheers,
Alex.