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The OKL4 Microvisor: Convergence Point of Microkernels and Hypervisors

August 30, 2010 12:00am PDT

The authors argue that recent hypervisor-vs-microkernel discussions completely miss the point. Fundamentally, the two classes of systems have much in common, and provide similar abstractions. They...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Capability Wrangling Made Easy: Debugging on a Microkernel With Valgrind

March 22, 2010 12:00am PDT

Not all operating systems are created equal. Contrasting traditional monolithic kernels, there is a class of systems called microkernels more prevalent in embedded systems like cellphones, chip...

Provided by: Dresden University of Technology

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Experience Report: SeL4 Formally Verifying a High-Performance Microkernel

September 2, 2009 12:00am PDT

The authors report on their experience using the functional programming language Haskell in the formal verification of the seL4 microkernel (Elphinstone et al. 2007). The seL4 kernel is an...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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A Real-Time Programmer's Tour of General-Purpose L4 Microkernels

October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

L4-embedded is a microkernel successfully deployed in mobile devices with soft real-time requirements. It now faces the challenges of tightly integrated systems, in which user interface,...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

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A Practical Look at Micro-Kernels and Virtual Machine Monitors

November 9, 2009 12:00am PST

This paper looks at two different approaches used to provide embedded system support for virtualization and virtual machine monitors for consumer electronics and mobile devices. The paper compares...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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L4-Based Real Virtual Machines - An API Proposal

April 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

Virtual Machines (VMs) recently regained attention as a solution to problems not only in high-performance computing, servers, and desktops, but in embedded systems as well. For example,...

Provided by: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

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Secure Microkernels, State Monads and Scalable Refinement

May 15, 2008 12:00am PDT

The authors present a scalable, practical Hoare Logic and refinement calculus for the nondeterministic state monad with exceptions and failure in Isabelle/HOL. The emphasis of this formalisation...

Provided by: NICTA

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High-Performance Microkernels and Virtualisation on ARM and Segmented Architectures

February 3, 2007 12:00am PST

This paper describes the techniques used to achieve high context-switching performance on ARM processors for the L4 microkernel and a para-virtualised Linux running on top. The authors examine how...

Provided by: University of New South Wales

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Building a Reliable Operating System

December 18, 2008 12:00am PST

Despite many decades of research, the management of errors in a live operating system remains a challenging problem. This paper presents CuriOS, an operating system that incorporates several new...

Provided by: University of Illinois

Blog Posts

Are microkernels the future of secure OS design?

September 6, 2010 5:00am PDT

MINIX 3, and microkernel OSes in general, might show us the way toward the future of secure OS design.

37 Latest comment by robo_dev

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A Novel Operating System on Chip With Information Security Support for Embedded System

December 1, 2009 12:00am PST

System-On-Chip (SOC) has provided more powerful functions for embedded systems. ScratchPad Memory (SPM), which is software-controlled on-chip memory, is used in embedded systems to reduce the...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Lazy Queueing and Direct Process Switch - Merit or Myths?

June 19, 2007 12:00am PDT

The L4 microkernel, like many first and second generation microkernels, was designed to maximise best-effort performance. One component of its functionality critical to overall system performance...

Provided by: University of New South Wales

Articles

Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum

January 25, 2007 2:13pm PST

Nick Gibson caught up with Dr Tanembaum after his keynote address at linux.conf.au and spoke about microkernels, MINIX and what's coming up on the horizon.

Discussion Threads

Are microkernels the future of secure OS design?

September 6, 2010 6:27am PDT

Are microkernels the future of secure OS design? article root Excellent idea! And not a moment too soon. De-bloatization of the OS, so to speak. I said "not a moment too soon", because...

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Q&A

Microsoft vs Micro-Kernel OSes

January 22, 2009 8:23pm PST

Microsoft vs Micro-Kernel OSes I am in a somewhat heated discussion with a colleague. Right now it's a matter of who is right and who is not, and I'm willing to admit being wrong, but I'd like...

2 Started by khat17@...  |  Latest comment by OH Smeg

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Adaptive High-Level Scheduling in a Generic Parallel Runtime Environment

January 1, 2012 12:00am PST

The authors present the design and prototype implementation of a Run-Time Environment (RTE) for the implicitly parallel execution of high-level languages. In their design a micro-kernel provides...

Provided by: Heriot-Watt University

Software

Adventure Boy - adventure of a young boy in the mysterious Inca Empire 1.4 (Mobile)

August 27, 2011 12:00am PDT

Adventure Boy is a hero with a big job - to power up his world!Help boy run ,jump,kick,lift,throw,bounce,swing,and get the 20 gemstone,Download now,and get ready to harness the power of pure...

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A Virtual Memory Foundation for Scalable Deterministic Parallelism

July 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Recent deterministic execution environments promise efficient program replay and bug reproduction, but their scalability is currently limited by strictly hierarchical synchronization models or...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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A Virtual Memory Foundation for Scalable Deterministic Parallelism

July 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Recent deterministic execution environments promise efficient program replay and bug reproduction, but their scalability is currently limited by strictly hierarchical synchronization models or...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Provable Security: How Feasible Is It?

April 13, 2011 12:00am PDT

For mainstream operating systems the community has given up on strong security. One can graft mandatory access control onto Linux, or try to harden Windows NT, but people are in no position to get...

Provided by: University of New South Wales