The original use cases of the loader have long been covered by the
dynamic init. The only substantial client of the loader remained to be
the qpluginwidget. However, the qpluginwidget was supported only by the
Arora web browser. But the blending of plugins with websites ultimately
remained a tech demo, and Arora has been replaced by Falkon.
Fixes#5229
- New session interfaces:
- os/include/play_session (for audio playing / mic-input driver)
- os/include/record_session (for audio recording / audio-output driver)
- Mixer at os/src/record_play_mixer providing both play and record services
- Simple waveform player at os/src/app/waveform_player
- Simple audio-signal capturing component at os/src/app/record_rom
- Simple oscilloscpe at gems/src/app/rom_osci (using record_rom)
- Simple test-audio_play for playing raw stereo f32 data
The _gems/run/waveform_player.run_ script illustrates the use of the new
components and interfaces.
Issue #5097
* Adds a new component server/nic_uplink that forwards packets unmodified
between one Uplink session at one side and potentially multiple Nic sessions
at the other side.
* Adds a new run script nic_uplink.run that does a basic test with multiple
Nic clients on this component and adds it to the autopilot list.
* Adds a new depot recipe src/nic_uplink for this component.
* Adds a new depot recipe pkg/pc_nic for deploying the pc_nic_driver together
with a nic_uplink server. This allows for raw access to the network connected
to the Nic of the system in contrast to the commonly used routed and NAT'd
access via NIC router. That said, it enables the use of network protocols
not yet supported by the NIC router at the cost of less protection.
Ref #4966
The new monitor component at os/src/monitor is the designated successor
of the gdb_monitor. This initial version, however, implements only the
subset needed to inspect the memory of the monitored component(s).
In contrast to the gdb_monitor, the new component supports the monitoring
of multiple components, leveraging the sandbox API. It can therefore be
used as a drop-in replacement for the init component. Like the gdb_monitor,
the new monitor speaks the GDB protocol over Genode's terminal session.
But the protocol implementation does not re-use any gdbserver code,
sidestepping the complexities of POSIX.
There exist two run scripts illustrating the new component. The
os/run/monitor.run script exercises memory inspection via the 'm' command
by letting a test program monitor itself. The os/run/monitor_gdb.run
script allows for the interactive use of GDB to interact with monitored
components.
Issue #4917
