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2013
Running RTEMS in POK Partitions
Philipp Eppelt
TU Dresden
The Partitioned Operating System Kernel (POK) provides the opportunity to collocate embedded
system application on the same hardware in a safe and secure manner. It supports the ARINC 653 and
MILS standards. The project goal was to run RTEMS on POK to inherit the benefits of theses standards,
as RTEMS is not able to implement ARINC 653 itself. To support virtual environments RTEMS was
expanded with an abstraction layer. The layer was tested by implementing a board support package and a
CPU model. POK was extended to provide partitions with an interface to request and manage hardware
interrupts. The paper outlines both systems and describes the introduced virtualization layer in detail.
The design is followed by implementation problems and examples with the focus on the virtualiation layer
and the interrupt processing of POK.
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