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High assurance: seL4
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History
11 related topics
Commercial deployment
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Cross-platform
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Key facts & relationships
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- Available in
- English, German
- Developer
- Jochen Liedtke
- Initial release
- 1993; 33 years ago (1993)
- Kernel type
- Microkernel
- License
- Various L4Re: MIT seL4: Source code, proofs: GPLv2 seL4: Libraries, tools: BSD 2-clause
- Marketing target
- Reliable computing
Topics to explore
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Overview
- Microkernel
- Operating systems Operating system
- Unix-like
- POSIX
- L3 L4 microkernel family
- German Germany
- Computer scientist
- Jochen Liedtke
- I386
- Assembly language
- Mach Mach (kernel)
- ACM SIGOPS
- Cross-platform Cross-platform software
- Security Computer security
- Robustness Robustness (computer science)
- Kernel Kernel (operating system)
- Application binary interface
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- University of New South Wales
- Dresden University of Technology
- Interface Interface (computing)
Design paradigm
- Address spaces Address space
- Threads Thread (computing)
- Scheduling Scheduling (computing)
- Inter-process communication
- User space
- Monolithic kernels Monolithic kernel
- Linux
History
Cross-platform
- API
- Two-clause BSD license BSD licenses
- Alien threads Alien thread
- L4Linux
- Itanium
- Device drivers Device driver
- Wombat Wombat (operating system)
- X86
- MIPS MIPS architecture
- XScale
- NICTA
- Embedded systems Embedded system
Commercial deployment
- Qualcomm
- Mobile Station Modem
- Mobile phone
- Gernot Heiser
- Generally available General availability
- Capability-based security
- SymbianOS
- Android Android (operating system)
- Automotive infotainment
- Apple A series
- A7 Apple A7
- Coprocessor
- Apple silicon
High assurance: seL4
- Common Criteria
- Formal verification
- Middle-out
- Specification
- Haskell
- Formal proof
- Deadlocks Deadlock (computer science)
- Livelocks Livelock
- Buffer overflows Buffer overflow
- Uninitialised variables Uninitialized variable
- Barrelfish Barrelfish (operating system)
- Machine code
- Compiler
- Trusted computing base
- Worst-case execution time
- General Dynamics C4 Systems
- Open-source licenses Open-source license
- Source code
- Licensed Software license
- GNU General Public License version 2 GNU General Public License
- Libraries Library (computing)
- Tools Programming tool
- Linux Foundation
- Line of code Source lines of code
- DARPA
- Rockwell Collins
- University of Minnesota
- Boeing
- Boeing AH-6
- Small Business Innovative Research
Other research and development
- Functional programming
- GPL GPL 3
- Nvidia
- ARM Cortex-M
- Darwin Darwin (operating system)
- Binary compatible
- Hypervisor
- Virtual machine
- Real-time operating system
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Nodes114
Edges113
Triples19
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017544
Components1
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L4 microkernel family
Top relations
Available in · 1
L4 microkernel family → English, German
Developer · 1
L4 microkernel family → Jochen Liedtke
Initial release · 1
L4 microkernel family → 1993; 33 years ago (1993)
Kernel type · 1
L4 microkernel family → Microkernel
License · 1
L4 microkernel family → Various L4Re: MIT seL4: Source code, proofs: GPLv2 seL4: Libraries, tools: BSD 2-clause
Marketing target · 1
L4 microkernel family → Reliable computing
Official website · 1
L4 microkernel family → os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4
OS family · 1
L4 microkernel family → L4
Preceded by · 1
L4 microkernel family → Eumel
Source model · 1
L4 microkernel family → Open source, closed source
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Important terminology
l4 microkernel kernel sel4 systems liedtke system performance operating also fiasco nicta version l4ka os implementation unsw developed linux original
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L4 microkernel family | Available in | English, German | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Developer | Jochen Liedtke | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Initial release | 1993; 33 years ago (1993) | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Kernel type | Microkernel | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | License | Various L4Re: MIT seL4: Source code, proofs: GPLv2 seL4: Libraries, tools: BSD 2-clause | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Marketing target | Reliable computing | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Official website | os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4 | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | OS family | L4 | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Preceded by | Eumel | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Source model | Open source, closed source | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Supported platforms | Intel i386, x86, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, SPARC, Itanium, RISC-V | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Working state | Current | 1.00 | infobox |
| L4 microkernel family | Written in | Assembly language, then C, C++ | 1.00 | infobox |
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