Roadmap 2023

[Alexander Boettcher]

Hi all,

On 12/26/22 4:58 PM, Norman Feske wrote:
> What about you?
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> 
> How did you perceive the Genode year 2022?

The first part of the year was dominated by project work and took me 
quite some time to re-port the Intel display driver based on the new 
dde_linux update. The re-testing across several hardware generations of 
notebooks and diverse monitors took its time. Further topics have been 
ACPI suspend&resume support for Genode at NOVA, Intel Gen12 P & E core 
detection, more CPU support (up to 256) and ongoing work on ACPI suspend 
and resume for Genode's base-hw kernel.

> What directions are you most excited about?

Privately, most exciting was that the Seoul VMM is now enjoyable on a 
day-to-day basis, because of the way better integration with Sculpt 
thanks to the new Virtio model support for gpu, input and audio. With 
that I have an enjoyable and maintainable and easy and quick upgradable 
path for up-to-date Firefox and Thunderbird VMs on Sculpt. Beside that, 
I worked on several proof of concept topics to improve further life on 
Sculpt, e.g. dynamic CPU power & frequency adjustments and monitoring 
for Intel HWP (work notebook) and AMD p-states (home desktop), with 
which one can steer indirectly the fan noise. The other life improvement 
was the principle support of the Intel Display Driver (as proof of 
concept) to support beside the mirror mode also the extended mode, to 
have one large screen across several attached monitors.

> Which topics do you deem as interesting to explore yourself?
> Do you already happen to have rough plans about 2023?

- Continuing support for ACPI suspend & resume to Genode' base-hw (x86_64)
- Device & driver restart and/or resume support after ACPI wakeup -> 
precondition for advanced/useful scenarios like Sculpt OS (x86)
- native Qemu port for cross architecture development
- Further Seoul VMM cultivation
- AMD display and GPU support
- make some proof of concept work ready for Genode upstream

Cheers,

Alex.

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Alexander Boettcher
Genode Labs

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