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Xvisor v0.2.6 Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:54:32 +0530  |  Posted by: Anup Patel

In this release, we have lot of new features, libraries, drivers,and driver frameworks.

New Features:

• Crypto library with MD5 and SHA-256 support
• User authentication library based on crypto library
• Optional Login/Logout in managment terminal
• Linux-compatible IOMMU framework (EXPERIEMENTAL)
• Linux-compatible SPI driver framework
• Linux-compatible MTD driver framework
• General purpose allocator library
• Bit reverse library
• Simple image loader library
• NOP strategy based block device request queue
• ISO9660 read-only filesystem support
• Linux-compatible USB framework (EXPERIEMENTAL)
• SCSI library
• Linux-compatible PCI driver framework
• Linux-compatible Framebuffer Backlight driver framework
• Virtual disk emulator framework
• Linux-compatible I2C driver framework
• Loglevel support in standart I/O

New Commands:

• flash command to access MTD devices
• fb image sub-command for displaying splash screen
• vcpu monitor sub-commad for displaying active vcpus
• backlight command to control framebuffer backlight
• vdisk command for managing virtual disks
• i2c command for managing i2c slave devices
• imx6 board specifig command

New Drivers:

• MXC GPIO driver
• Freescale i.MX6 SPI driver
• GPIO bitbanging SPI driver
• M25P80 flash MTD driver
• Freescale i.MX6 pinctrl driver
• Freescale i.MX6 framebuffer driver
• USB hub class driver
• USB mass-storage class driver
• Realtek 8139 fast ethernet PCI driver
• PWM based backlight driver
• Freescale i.MX6 eSDHC driver
• Freescale i.MX6 I2C driver

ARM Ports:

• Use GCC -O2 optimization level

x86_64 Port:

• Able to boot linux as guest upto user space initialization