Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by elcritch on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:18PM
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Anyone used this before? If it supports arm it could be a handy system.
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Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:39PM
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Can I ask what you'll find it useful for? The technology is neat, I'm just struggling to think of something that would benefit from it.
Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by elcritch on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:03PM
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Primarily for soft (or hard) real time operations. Even kernel modules running in a RT-Linux have a difficult time responding consistently to an IRQ at sub-10 uS latency. Of course, the larger SoC capable of running Linux can have hardware latencies due to shared data buses, etc. but still having a RTOS layer “underneath” Linux would be a good way to ensure more consistent responses.
Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by monocasa on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:36PM
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It does support arm, it's one of the primary ways to use sel4.
Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by elcritch on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:04AM
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Does that mean you could run l4linux with sel4? Didn’t realize the l4 api is consistent/broad enough to do that. That’s cool! The linked “drops” rtos seemed to be dead a long time back.
Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by __bjoernd on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:44AM
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Not quite. It was rebranded and even is commercially supported these days: https://www.kernkonzept.com/l4re.html
Re:L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
by vertex-four on Saturday January 19, 2019 @08:56AM
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There is no documentation that I can find regarding Linux running on seL4, outside of hardware virtualisation.