Genode-Based Sculpt OS 21.10 Adds Intel GPU Acceleration, USB Web Camera Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Genode-Based Sculpt OS 21.10 Adds Intel GPU Acceleration, USB Web Camera Support

On Thursday in addition to the releases of Ubuntu 21.10 (plus its derivatives) and OpenBSD 7.0, the Genode OS Framework based Sculpt OS saw its 21.10 release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sculpt-OS-21.10

[tildearrow]

All of a sudden there is GPU acceleration? That's amazing.
Is this GPU acceleration method crash-safe?

[sindr]

All of a sudden there is GPU acceleration? That's amazing.
Is this GPU acceleration method crash-safe?

Yep, and they have amdgpu too!

[tildearrow]

Yep, and they have amdgpu too!

Guess I'll switch to Genode some day so I finally could get rid of having to restart my system on a hang.

[scottishduck]

So if my understanding of genode is correct; these drivers are userspace and therefore kernel agnostic?

[sindr]

Sure, if another OS implemented Genode's userspace driver API.

[ayumu]

So if my understanding of genode is correct; these drivers are userspace and therefore kernel agnostic?

Correct.

[ayumu]

Sure, if another OS implemented Genode's userspace driver API.

Genode supports a range of kernels already.

Furthermore, programs do not need to be recompiled for a different microkernel; the ABI is the same regardless of the kernel used.