implementations of L4

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS edmundo at rano.demon.co.uk
Fri Mar 12 10:44:10 CET 1999


I've been trying to find out about existing implementations of L4.
Perhaps people could correct or add to what I have discovered:

* The original L4 by Jochen Liedtke. Written in assebler. For i486 and
i586. NOT FREE and therefore utterly useless :-)

* L4/MIPS from Australia. Written in assembler? GNU.

* L4/Alpha from Dresden and Australia. Written in assembler? Not yet
released but probably GNU?

* Fiasco from Dresden. Written in C++, and designed for portabilty
rather than efficiency, but only runs on i486 and i586 at present. GNU.

* A version of L4 for x86 from Dresden written in C. I saw this
mentioned in the list archive. Is it really separate from Fiasco?

* L4/ARM in assembler. Unfinished? I saw this in the archive, too.

If this list could be corrected and completed, could it be put on the
L4 website, with links, as it must be what a lot of casual readers are
interested in knowing?

Edmund




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