Roadmap 2019

Norman Feske norman.feske at genode-labs.com
Thu Jan 3 13:54:53 CET 2019


Hi John,

>> * What are your ambitions for 2018?
> 
> I have goals in three basic categories:
> 
> 1. Desktop.  This has two parts.  The easy one is to switch to Genode as
> my VirtualBox host.  But I also would like to have the VirtualBox Guest
> Additions for using Genode within a VM.
> 
> Would this qualify for the roadmap?

the topic fits well with the overall theme that is emerging. I would
probably speak more generally about fostering the integration of Genode
with existing protocols and infrastructure. E.g., Emery's recent work
with 9p [1] would also fall in this category. Also, the use of Xpra
would be fitting [2].

[1] https://github.com/ehmry/ninep
[2] https://github.com/zorodc/genode-world/commits/xpra

That said, I would not go as far as making definite promises.

Speaking of the Guest Additions for Genode, I can imagine a nice picture
where Sculpt could offer a VBox shared folder as storage option in
addition to the detected AHCI/NVMe devices and the RAM fs. This way, the
user could host the Sculpt storage in a plain directory on a non-Genode
host system and deploy Sculpt within VirtualBox by accessing those
files. The integration would be quite seamless.

> If not, I am starting to work on it - it should make a great learning
> experience (and hopefully a useful blog series), because the various
> facets touch so many different parts of the system.  But I will be slow,
> so if others are interested, I will be happy to learn from them instead!
>  ;^)

Cool!

> 3. Tablet.  This is part of a longer-term goal, but I would love to have
> Genode running in some form on an open-hardware tablet if possible.  (I
> don't even care if it's useful at this stage.)
> 
> I know there are efforts toward building mobile front-ends under Qt, but
> I would be even more interested in working toward a native UI front-end.
>  I really feel that Genode would be a great fit for tablets.
> 
> I know tablet-related work will not make the roadmap for 2019, but would
> it be possible to agree on a semi-official tablet hardware target for
> the next year or two, for those of us who are interested in pursuing this?

>From my point of view, the most sensible choice would be a device based
on the NXP i.MX SoC. This SoC is used by the Librem phone [3]. So there
may be potential of synergies. More importantly, i.MX comes with proper
official documentation and Genode already has a number of drivers for
several i.MX peripherals.

[3] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Cheers
Norman

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