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Re: [seL4] FYI: microkernel.info community site
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Alexander Senier |
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Re: [seL4] FYI: microkernel.info community site |
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Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:03:30 +0100 |
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Hi Gernot,
when analyzing the statement carefully, you'll find that it's indeed
true. The seL4 source was *open-sourced* in July 2014 whereas the Muen
source was released in August 2013.
But of cause you're right, we're not talking about the same properties here.
Cheers,
Alex
On 03/10/2016 10:33 PM, Gernot Heiser wrote:
> Interesting statement on the Muen kernel section: "The world’s first Open
> Source microkernel that has been formally proven to contain no runtime errors
> at the source code level. “
>
> We proved full functional correctness (which is a superset of absence of
> runtime errors) for seL4 in 2009. I must be missing something.
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