Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps

(github.com)

28 points | by ianseyler 2 hours ago

1 comments

  • bflesch 1 hour ago
    Sorry this might be an extremely stupid question, but can you please explain the benefits of this and what other (larger?) alternatives are?

    I understand that this "exokernel" provides more performant hardware access for software and it seems to be written from scratch in assembler.

    Does this mean that one should expect a lot of security and robustness issues, which means it should only be used for internal services and never be exposed to untrusted networks?

    • heliumtera 3 minutes ago
      If one decides to boot an arbitrary system, pointing at whatever would be the latest version of exec.asm, it doesn't even matter what the project is today and whatever the setup script is doing. If one chooses to use this, one decides to handover the virtual machine ownership. Your system is whatever OP decides, now or in the future.