Well, I'll probably start one for a side project (being a student is
busy... Not that working is any better). But wouldn't GRUB work as a
bootloader as well or is it that sel4 only boots on uboot?

On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 11:23 Tom Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Wolfgang Keller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Sebastian Lau <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Would a port of seL4 to the raspberry pi 2 be welcome because I'm
>> interested
>> > in buying a raspberry pi 2 and building sel4 for it?
>>
>> I have not much knowledge about seL4, but the boot process of the RPi
>> (all versions) is rather special:
>>
>
> Thanks for the R-Pi summary!
>
> Some layers may be difficult to prove but that
> should not make it impossible to do good work.
>
> Something along the lines...
>     If Given: uboot is trusted.
>     If Given: USB IO is trusted to devices ...UVW, XYZ.
>
> The value of accepting some "Givens" is that other levels of
> work can move forward on a very inexpensive platform.
>
> As a student platform the R-Pi is interesting because
> the student has a worthy (sufficiently interesting) platform to
> abuse for less than the price of a modern text book.   Pop out the memory
> card reload it and start over.   The students laptop has not crashed.
>
> There is an old adage that to work on a car at home you
> need to have a second car available  to go and get parts.   With the
> R-Pi spare flash memory cards and USB memory give
> that spare vehicle to go and get parts....
>
> Have fun.
>
>
>
>
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