Sculpt OS 22.04 Release Candidate (RC)

[John J. Karcher]

On 4/13/22 08:55, Christian Helmuth wrote:
> Hello community,
> 
> today we published a Release Candidate of the Sculpt operating system
> for x86-PC. During the last months we worked hard to apply our
> reimagined Linux-device-driver environment also to PC devices and
> updated drivers for USB, Wifi, and Intel graphics to a recent Linux
> kernel version. This opens the prospect to support new PC platforms
> (speak recent notebook devices) more easily in future releases.
> 
> The upcoming version of Sculpt replaces multiple integral device
> drivers at once. For this reason, we concluded to pre-release an RC
> and invite all Sculpt users to test it in their current setups. Please
> feel to report back any regression, flaw, or oddity on this list or
> the issue tracker over the next couple of days, so we can address them
> before the final release.

I am happy to report that (in light testing) everything seems to work as 
before on my ThinkPad L380 Yoga.  The touchscreen still puts Nitpicker 
into a "click-free" state, but I suspect that's because the USB HID 
driver hasn't been converted to the new system yet.

BTW, thanks for putting out this disk image!  I have been very 
interested in testing this since the 22.02 release, but I've been 
getting build errors in "pkg/pc_usb_host" on my Debian Unstable system, 
some of which I haven't been able to solve (with my limited time and 
knowledge).

Interestingly, using the commit you referenced, "pkg/pc_usb_host" builds 
now, but I get the following error in "pkg/wifi":

       [Linux] 
/home/mainuser/Devel/genode_main/genode/depot/genodelabs/api/pc_linux/2022-04-12/src/linux/scripts/extract-cert.c:21:10: 
fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
       [Linux]     21 | #include <openssl/bio.h>
       [Linux]        |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       [Linux]  compilation terminated.

In any case, this is really exciting progress!

  Happy Sculpting!

   John J. Karcher
   devuser at alternateapproach.com