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  • Christian Helmuth avatar

    Getting Fujitsu U7411 up and running: Network Boot


    Earlier this year, the Genode team met the challenge to bring our OS to recent Intel Gen11 hardware, more precisely we faced the task to fully enable the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK U7411. But first things first: How to prepare the notebook for remote booting without sufficient legacy BIOS support? Continue...

  • Norman Feske avatar

    Pine fun - One Platform driver to rule them all


    In the previous article we exercised direct-device access from user-level components. In Genode systems beyond such toy scenarios, however, it would be irresponsible to follow the path of allowing arbitrary drivers to access any device willy-nilly. Our call for discipline and rigidity is answered by the (rising drum roll) platform driver. Continue...

  • Christian Helmuth avatar

    Sculpt OS on HP EliteBook 840 G5


    A few weeks ago, I got hold of a brand-new HP EliteBook and was eager to find out how Sculpt OS may do on it. The specs promised a smooth ride but as always I had to face some hidden obstacles. Continue...

  • Sebastian Sumpf avatar

    Enablement of Genode's ARMv8 support


    ARMv8 introduces a new 64 bit instruction set architecture (ISA). This implies that there exists a different general purpose register set as well as new instructions and opcodes that are not compatible with ARMv7 or ARMv6. While for high level languages like C or C++ the burden of opcode generation is transparently handled by the compiler, there are always cases (e.g, assembly, application binary interface, ELF format) that have to be handled specifically for each ISA. In this article I will describe the most important adaptions required to execute Genode on the ARMv8 architecture. Continue...

  • Christian Helmuth avatar

    How to prepare an x86 notebook for debugging


    For my first article on Genodians, I recorded my preparation steps to enable a recent notebook model for developments including the preservation of the OEM Windows installation, remote power control, and serial-over-lan logging. Continue...

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