Hi Stefan,
thank you for sharing your perspective, which happens to be perfectly aligned with my original posting.
I agree with your perception that we did not achieved to reach a new, wide audience for Genode topics. Anyway, I see signs for a slowly, but consistently growing ecosystem around Genode in the shape of new, and remained users, and companies docking to our development steadily. And I think the steps done, regarding ARM64 development in this year in general, and around the i.MX8MQ SoC in particular, leverage Genode's potential for an increasing community.
The participation and enthusiasm shown in this roadmap thread nicely underlines what you just said. :-) So I'm all fine with further nurturing our small and pleasant community.
Technically, the biggest issue to me is still the driver ecosystem. Hereby, we already discussed (offline) alternative approaches for cheaper Linux device driver ports, which I would like to follow.
The further marriage of the x86 and ARM driver ecosystem is another heartfelt wish of me. Hereby, the coalescense of the platform driver API of both architectures is essential, which I would like to implement.
Beside the extension of the ARM VMM to use it for my productive daily development VM on the MNT Reform, I really would like to use mutt mail setup on Genode finally.
The Linux driver topic makes a recurring appearance. I'm happy about this resonance. The more developers getting involved in the topic, the better.
The platform-driver topic is not glamourous but very important. Thank you for your willingness to continue this line of work.
Well, using the MNT Reform 2 with one hand, while holding the Pinephone in the other hand - both systems running Genode in a technically mature form to handle my daily routine. That would be more than I can dream of technically-wise.
What a nice picture you're putting in my head!
Cheers Norman