Very recently, we(the Trustworthy Systems group) merged Raspberry Pi 3 support for seL4. This excellent blog post by Kofi already highlights why this is great news. Personally, it is exciting because, a Raspberry Pi 3 is a lot more accessible than all the other boards we’ve previously ran our kernel on. I own one too, and it is absolutely amazing that I can run, muck around and put my Raspberry Pi 3 to some good use. I’ve been playing around with seL4 on my Pi3. The things that I’m currently trying to do are:
- Get Haskell runtime on seL4. Some might say this is an exercise in futility, but this will help me get Cogent build on seL4, and then I can start building verified systems software(currently file systems) on top of seL4. Ofcourse, this involves a lot more than just the filesystem implementation(need a VFS layer, block cache, drivers etc.). It might be a long shot, but hey, I’m trying!
- The OS that I’ve been trying to build, forever(Who hasn’t tried to build one, really?). With seL4, the kernel is taken care of, letting us build all the fun stuff on top(Students of the AOS class at UNSW do exactly this).
Good times!
Partha Susarla 