Today, we have made the L4ka::Pistachio version of Genode publicly available via our subversion repository. The L4ka::Pistachio kernel is developed by the L4ka group at the University of Karlsruhe and the DiSy group at the University of New South Wales. It implements the latest official L4 API, which is called x.2 (alse referred to a version 4). The official L4ka::Pistachio website is:

http://www.l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/

Although both L4 kernels L4ka::Pistachio and the already supported L4/Fiasco belong to the L4 family, they differ in many ways such as the supported CPU architectures, premptibility, kernel-API features, scheduling, stability, and their respective license. This makes the availability of both kernels as base platforms for Genode very attractive.

The port of Genode to L4ka::Pistachio was primarily done by Julian Stecklina as a student research project at the University of Technology Dresden. In cooperation, we integrated his work with the mainline Genode development. The L4ka::Pistachio version will become a regular part of the official Genode distribution with upcoming release scheduled for February.

You can find all the needed technical information about building and using Genode with L4ka::Pistachio at our Wiki:

http://genode.org/community/wiki/GenodeOnL4kaPistachio

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