========================================= Genode Labs Newsletter - June / July 2013 ========================================= Content 1. Join the celebration of our 5th anniversary 2. Hack'n Hike date and location set 3. Forthcoming device-driver support for Exynos-5 hardware 4. New features planned for Genode 13.08 1. Join the celebration of our 5th anniversary ---------------------------------------------- The upcoming version 13.08 scheduled for August will mark the 5th anniversary of Genode. From a technical point of view, the past year was rich of achievements worth celebrating, ranging from the profound support for hardware virtualization and IOMMUs on the x86 architecture, over the coverage of modern ARM-based hardware platforms, up to the ability of Genode to self-host itself. From the perspective of our business, we are happy to continue our walk on the path of self-funded organic growth, welcoming Martin Stein and Josef Söntgen as regular members of our team. We invite you to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Genode together with us. If you feel connected to the technology we are building or to us as a company, we would be excited to meet you at our barbecue and campfire at the traditional riverside location: Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/C0luj 15th of August, 6 pm near Moritzburger Str. 1 in Dresden If you like to spend a relaxing evening together with the Genode team and friends, enjoy barbecue and beverages, or if you just like to take the opportunity to catch up, please send a brief notice until 12th of August to info@genode-labs.com 2. Hack'n Hike date and location set ------------------------------------ In the previous newsletter, we announced the date of this year's Genode Hack'n Hike event - six days of programming, brainstorming, relaxing, and hiking during 11th to 16th of September. In the meanwhile, we settled for a beautiful location in the Bohemian Switzerland in Czech Republic: http://goo.gl/maps/TAZc1 http://www.kristinhradek.cz/en The location lends itself to a multitude of leisure activities. For planning those activities and to discuss topics around the Hack'n Hike event, there is a dedicated issue in the Genode issue tracker: https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/793 Please feel welcome to join in, whether to stay the whole time or just for a short visit. Genode Labs will sponsor the accommodation, but the available space is limited. If you consider to join this year's Hack'n Hike, please send a short notice to the following email address to register your participation: hacknhike@genode-labs.com 3. Forthcoming device-driver support for Exynos-5 hardware ---------------------------------------------------------- One of the highlights of the latest Genode version released in May was the addition of substantial platform support for the Samsung Exynos-5 SoC, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU core. Since the release, we further extended our commitment to this platform by adding new device drivers for Gigabit networking over USB 3.0 as well as SATA 3.0. Whereas the Gigabit networking driver is based on the USB stack of Linux 3.9, the SATA 3.0 driver was developed from scratch. Thanks to extensive benchmarking and optimizations, both drivers deliver excellent performance, which matches and in some cases even exceeds the performance of native Linux. Did anyone say that microkernel-based OSes are slow? Of course, the drivers will be part of the upcoming version 13.08 of Genode. But they are available at our master branch already: https://github.com/genodelabs/genode 4. New features planned for Genode 13.08 ---------------------------------------- The work on the anniversary release 13.08 is in full swing. It will be packed with a number of exciting new features such as SMP support on the NOVA base platform, Qt5, and a brand new high-performance event tracing framework. The latter topic is particularly exciting for us as it will give us deep insights into the interplay of components well beyond the debugging and profiling facilities that we have today. The design and implementation of the event tracing facility is under way since approximately one year. Its practical realization was carried out by Josef Söntgen who did not hesitate to take on this complex endeavour as the topic of his diploma thesis. Well, his work did not only turn out very well, we are happy to welcome Josef as regular staff member at our team of Genode Labs! 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