Hi Pirmin,
thanks a lot for your contribution to the road-map discussion!
What directions are you most excited about?
As I want to replace my main setup (Linux/KVM with virtual machines for
different tasks) with a Genode system. I'm very interested in everything
related to things that enable Genode to run on my main desktop machine.
Two points that Alex brought up caught my attention:
- Extended multi monitor
- support for AMD GPUs. This I have on my task list for some time now,
unfortunately I never had time to do it.
The repeated interest in AMD during the road-map discussion cannot be
dismissed. Even though I expressed my hesitation in my reply to Alex
[1], I sense that the community interest in AMD deserves a mention on
the official road map. My concerns can be addressed by presenting the
topic as exploratory work.
[1] https://lists.genode.org/pipermail/users/2023-January/008218.html
An other point I'm interested in, is Genode on the PinePhone (mine
should arrive on Friday). One thing I would want to use this for, is
thedering in locations with no WiFi but LTE coverage. This can currently
be done via the LAN port of the dock I think.
It is so nice to see your interest in the PinePhone topic as well. For
your specifc use case, the Wifi driver would be the most obvious piece
missing so far.
One point that is probably not that easy and further out, is the
possibility to pass through a PCI device (Graphics cart) directly to a
virtual machine.
Another interesting topic to explore. The biggest challenge will
certainly be the coupling of the the guest OS with the IOMMU to allow
the guest OS to issue DMA transfers. So VBox must somehow interoperate
with the platform driver who is the single authority over DMA memory
now. ...interesting food for thought.
Second, now that support to port libraries with Goa is nearing
completion, I would like to use this to port neovim to Genode. Not that
vim isn't enough to edit files. I would like to test out, what can be
achieved that way.
I'm grateful for your intensive work on this topic. Even though I have
not yet reviewed your latest version, I sense that the library support
has matured enough to be upstreamed soon. Do you think that we should
aspire featuring it it in Genode 23.02? If so, I'd commit to focus on
the review/finishing touches during February.
Cheers
Norman
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