Public release of seL4

Gernot Heiser <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:12:35 +1100
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> From: Gernot Heiser <[email protected]>
> Date: 2 February 2011 17:09:11 AET
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Public release of seL4
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> NICTA and Open Kernel Labs have jointly released seL4. For those not =
aware of seL4, it is an L4 microkernel which is formally verified =
(meaning that the implementation is mathematically proven to conform to =
the specification). It is the world's first (and only) OS kernel that is =
formally verified in this strict sense.
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> The public release includes the formal specification of the kernel =
(ARM version), kernel binaries for x86 and ARM, and a para-virtualized =
Linux running on top of seL4/x86.
>=20
> More about seL4: http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/sel4/
> NICTA download site: http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/seL4/home.pyl
>=20
> Gernot


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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br =
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font-size:medium;">2 February 2011 17:09:11  AET<br></span></div><div =
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1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; =
font-size:medium;"><b>Public release of =
seL4</b><br></span></div><br><div>NICTA and Open Kernel Labs have =
jointly released seL4. For those not aware of seL4, it is an L4 =
microkernel which is formally verified (meaning that the implementation =
is mathematically proven to conform to the specification). It is the =
world's first (and only) OS kernel that is formally verified in this =
strict sense.<br><br>The public release includes the formal =
specification of the kernel (ARM version), kernel binaries for x86 and =
ARM, and a para-virtualized Linux running on top of =
seL4/x86.<br><br>More about seL4: <a =
href=3D"http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/sel4/">http://ertos.nicta.com.a=
u/research/sel4/</a><br>NICTA download site: <a =
href=3D"http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/seL4/home.pyl">http://ertos.nic=
ta.com.au/software/seL4/home.pyl</a><br><br>Gernot<br></div></blockquote><=
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