Genode Labs News

Genode OS Framework version 8.11 released

The version 8.11 of Genode addresses two crucial requirements for the practical use of the framework, the availability of device drivers and a way to enable existing C code bases to be ported to Genode. Our new device-driver API called DDE kit allows for the reuse of existing C-written device drivers at low engineering costs.  For facilitating the porting of the wealth of existing open-source libraries to Genode, we have complemented the base framework with a C runtime ported from FreeBSD. Among the numerous other changes and additions described in our detailed release notes are a new API for asynchronous notifications, the consistent typification of capabilities, and a new experimental feature called managed dataspaces.

Learn more about all the new features and changes described in our comprehensive release notes...

Download the release 8.11 of the Genode OS Framework...

Live-CD image demonstrating Genode

In preparation of the upcoming Genode source-code release 8.11, we have made our default demonstration scenario available as bootable CD image. So for just trying out Genode, you won't need to touch any source code. This version runs on Qemu, VirtualBox, or PC hardware. Download the ISO image at Genode project website...

Genode FX on Virtex-4 FPGAs

Our detailed porting guide will enable third parties to deploy our technology on custom FPGA boards in a straight-forward way. The guide takes the popular ML405 evaluation platform as example but the described methodology should be easily applicable to other boards as well. In addition to the ML405, we have added new example projects for the Spartan-3E and Spartan-3AN platforms to our public subversion repository. For your convenience, we have compiled the Genode FX release 2008-10. Visit the Genode FX product page...

Newsletter archive online

As we have published our second newsletter today, it is time to start archiving these mailings. If you are not receiving our newsletter on a regular basis via email, you can now read the past newsletters online at our newsletter archive.

Genode FX running on PowerPC of Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs

The Virtex5 series marks the high end of FPGA products from Xilinx. The Virtex5 FPGA featured on the ML507 board provides a full PowerPC 440 core. With the release 2008-09, Genode FX supports the ML507 board. Applications developed for Genode FX can now be compiled for the Microblaze architecture and the PowerPC without source-code modifications. The ML507 demo project that comes with the official release operates the PowerPC at 300MHz and uses the DVI connector for video output at a resolution of 1024x768.