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Our operating system framework is built of just 5 components, enabling tailor-made solutions for every use case.
The basic components of our Operating System Framework enable high-security system solutions – unique, minimal, and specific for your needs.
The L4Re Operating System Framework with its modular system architecture is based on decades of experience. It enables tailor-made system solutions that are unique, minimal, and specific for your use case. Uniform interfaces and APIs from the L4Re Microkernel through the L4Re Core Foundation and up to the L4Re Application Services allow the implementation of use-case specific policies and rules in a minimal way without bloating critical parts of the system or influencing independent components.
Kernkonzept uses the L4Re Operating System Framework as a platform with which we develop all tailor-made L4Re-solutions for our customers. For us it is a large tool kit to build minimal operating system solutions and hypervisor solutions according to the Principle Of Least Authority (POLA) enabling Zero Trust. This tool kit includes the L4Re Microkernel, the L4Re Core Foundation, L4Re Operating System Services, L4Re Operating System Libraries and L4Re Application Services.
The Framework is characterized by its multi-server architecture known from distributed systems and implements real security by design. Unlike in traditional operating systems which require to invent multiple complex sandboxing mechanisms to implement the Principle Of Least Authority (POLA), the design of the L4Re Operating System Framework has been guided by that principle. With its state-of-the-art object capability security mechanism POLA is the soul of the L4Re Operating System, protecting your applications and use cases.
L4Re Core Foundation provides fundamental software services and abstractions for the L4Re Operating System and Application Services. The L4Re Microkernel and L4Re Core Foundation are co-designed so that they provide a generic interface that does not mandate any use-case.
For compatibility with existing software, L4Re Core Foundation supports a selected set of POSIX and C++ standard APIs. This makes porting existing software easier protecting your investment while you can instantly profit from the enhanced security capabilities of the L4Re Operating System Framework.
The L4Re Operating System Libraries are a set of libraries that are used to implement the L4Re Operating System Services. You can also use these libraries to implement your own services. The L4Re Operating System Framework includes libraries for basic application support such as a libc and C++ standard library, as well as virtio, device drivers, and event handling.
The L4Re Application Services provide services for other applications and are the applications themselves. This can be a native L4 application, called Micro-App, or a virtual machine (VM) that hosts your existing applications.
The L4Re Microkernel is a state-of-the-art microkernel, featuring latest advances in security design by providing capabilities and local namespaces for applications, features that are brought to other systems as an afterthought only. It is the foundation of the L4Re Operating System and Hypervisor Framework, which allows the construction of flexible, static, or dynamic systems for real time, time sharing and virtualization applications. It scales seamlessly from small embedded systems to big server machines with hundreds of CPUs and terabytes of RAM. It can be used as separation kernel or with more operating system functionalities.
See our list of Board Support Packages (BSPs) that are already supported by the L4Re Operating System Framework.
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