Thanks for the offer - I could get a Novena - but time (and experience with tricky hardware problems) is more difficult to acquire ;)
Just looking at the sources now, I see that the only framebuffer driver written for iMX has been for the iMX53 - doing a quick search leads me to think that the IPU on the iMX6 is a very similar interface (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/ipu-v3/ipu-common.c)
Have you tried playing with the framebuffer driver? I imagine quite a few other things don't work (USB for sure, but probably ethernet as well?)
Vladimir
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7. Jan 2016 23:29 by 166291@...9...:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 10:47:52PM +0000, Vladimir Lushnikov wrote:I don't have a Novena but other i.MX6 hardware - I haven't looked at running
Genode + a GUI on it yet though. So maybe that's a good h/w target outside of
the x86 world.
I have a Novena as my main machine now, so if you need testing for it I'be happy
to do so and provide feedback.
If we're talking about cool things microkernels can do, I'd say the fact you can
get low level hardware access with minimum overhead for drivers in user space,
and through paravirtualization have a system almost as fast as bare metal.
It'd be interesting to see high-level languages used to write drivers (this is
mentioned a bit in the 2015 roadmap with Haskell) rather than something like C.
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