From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ravenscar - program termination
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:02:34 GMT
Date: 2007-01-31T18:02:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <_Q4wh.329385$FQ1.174442@attbi_s71> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fy9rty13.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> Indeed, one of Ravenscar's goals is to make the necessary kernel easy
> to certify to the most stringent safety standards. As with all
> high-integrity software, the best way to achieve this is to make
> things small and simple. So, not only does Ravenscar avoid the need
> to wait for task termination, but also the tasking model (priority
> ceiling inheritance) avoids the need for locks completely. Imagine a
> tasking kernel with no mutexes :)
The assumption is a single processor. We're already moving away from that.
--
Jeff Carter
"Alms for an ex-leper!"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-29 16:34 Ravenscar - program termination Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-29 19:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-01-30 8:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-30 9:37 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-30 17:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-01-31 9:01 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-31 9:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-01-30 14:24 ` matteo.bordin
2007-01-30 19:15 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-01-30 20:30 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-31 7:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-01-31 8:12 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-01-31 8:59 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-01-31 18:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
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