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Subject: Re: [ANN] Muen - An x86/64 Separation Kernel for High Assurance
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On Friday, December 13, 2013 6:30:54 PM UTC-5, Alexander Senier wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:41:38 -0800 (PST)
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> Diogenes <phathax0r@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Are there plans to port this kernel?
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> While a port to a suitable AMD CPU seems doable, it is not planned at
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> the moment as there is no demand. Given the size of the kernel, a port
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> to completely different architectures like ARM would probably be more
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> complex than a rewrite.
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> > Are you looking for contributors?
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> Sure. Note, that Muen is meant to be the foundation for trustworthy
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> *systems* - in a component-based system there are many other interesting
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> areas outside the kernel. Someone asked for a (trusted?) TCP/IP stack
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> earlier, other trusted components (input, graphics, crypto=85) are
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> necessary to make up a complete system.
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> Regards
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> Alex

Thanks. I was curious because I'm working on some Ada apps for both Opteron=
 and Android platforms.

I'll download your kernel and have look.