Hi,
I have just published another release of OSv
-https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/releases/tag/v0.56.0. I am also
enclosing the release notes down here.
"This new release brings new modern version of musl (1.1.24), greatly
improved support of aarch64 architecture and many improvements of Virtio-FS
including DAX window support to speed-up read I/O.
*Highlights*
- Musl
- Upgraded from 0.9.12 to 1.1.24
- Added new Bionic unit tests
- AArch64
- Added Cadence UART driver
- Added support to compile kernel natively on aarch64 host
- Added support to cross-compile kernel on x64 Ubuntu and CentOS 7
- Added support to build modules
- Implemented mmio serial console for Firecracker
- Added floating-point support
- Supports ROFS
- Greatly improved debugging
- Fixed debug build which involved implementing context switch logic
in assembly
- Got most unit tests to pass
- Added support of static TLS (Thread Local Storage)
- Implemented PL031 driver
- Added support of Virtio-FS
- Improved SMP support (#vCPUs >= 2)
- Tested on QEMU in TCG mode (full emulation)
- Tested on QEMU and Firecracker with KVM on real ARM hardware -
Raspberry PI 4 and Odroid N2 Plus
- Tested many new apps:
- nginx
- rust examples
- java 11
- graalvm
- python
- iperf
- ffmpeg
- node
- REST cli app
- lighttpd
- Virtio-FS
- Boots application from virtio-fs
- Implemented DAX
- Implemented readdir
- Added support to build with GCC 10 and 11
- VFS
- Added mkdirat
- Added statx
- Added minimal unlinkat
- Hypervisors
- Boots on Intel's cloud-hypervisor
<https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor> - see this Wiki
<https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/wiki/Running-OSv-on-Cloud-Hypervisor>
for
details
- Apps/runtimes
- Latest golang (1.15.x)
- nginx from host
*Acknowledgments*
We want to thank all contributors to the project. But the special thanks go
to:
- Nadav Har’El for contributing and reviewing many patches and providing
guidance for many others
- Fotis Xenakis for further improving Virtio-FS support (most notably
DAX window)
- Stewart Hildebrand for making OSv boot on LYNX Secure hypervisor and
fixing many AAarch64-related bugs
- Waldemar Kozaczuk for contributing most patches"
Regards,
Waldek
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