What is going on for february release?

[Robert Campbell]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Norman Feske <norman.feske at ...1...
> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> > Well, february 2013 is at our door now, and I would like to remember
> > us of the plan for it according to our 2013 roadmap:
> >
> > -Low-latency audio support
> > The current audio_out-session interface was our first shot into the
> > direction of audio processing. To enable use cases where streaming
> > audio and sporadic sounds must be accommodated at the same time, we
> > need to revise our approach.
>
> This line of work (conducted by Sebastian Sumpf) has been merged into
> master. See the following commits for more details:
>
>
>
> https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/commit/238d6a29c508ec776137362bc71363a17ddc0428
>
>
> https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/commit/47bb48bdd6fa688cd91585412326e1f6d107f475
>
>
> https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/commit/5aea55e4172ce6ff9641e639bb3e24ea741f625a
>
> We still need to thoroughly test the new solution on real hardware and
> at least one virtualization solution (i.e., VirtualBox). For the
> release, we plan to document the design of the new interface and the
> rationale behind it.
>
> > -IOMMU support on NOVA
>
> This topic is being worked on by Alexander Böttcher. See here:
>
>   https://github.com/alex-ab/genode/commits/nova_iommu_v0
>
> In addition, Alex largely refined the base-nova code to enable dynamic
> workloads on this kernel. This work includes pretty substantial changes
> of the kernel. These changes are available in his fork of the kernel:
>
>   https://github.com/alex-ab/NOVA/commits/r1
>
> > -First steps of user-interface concept
> > --UI concept for pleasant working environment
> > --Tiled window manager
> > --Terminal improvements (e.g., scroll buffer)
> > --Noux improvements (e.g., signals)
>
> These points remain largely unaddressed. I expect that we will see
> progress on them after FOSDEM. I will certainly be involved in these
> topics.
>
> > -Improved x86 virtualization support
> > --Improved virtualization support (Vancouver on NOVA)
>
> There is an open pull request about this topic:
>
>   https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/pull/582
>
> Udo Steinberg agreed to revisit the patches to incorporate my feedback.
> After that, we will integrate them into staging and document and test
> the new version of the Vancouver VMM.
>
> In addition to the mentioned topics, the February release will bring
> principal support for the Exynos5-based Arndale platform for our custom
> base-hw kernel. See Martin Stein's topic branch:
>

This is just awesome. I now have motivation to get that latest ARM
Chromebook from Samsung :)

>
>   https://github.com/m-stein/genode/commits/arndale
>
> Regards
> Norman
>
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