seL4 3.0.0 Release Notes

This release is a minor release that brings structural improvements to the kernel in preparation for 64bit architecture support. Although changes do break the API, the breakages are small (see API Changes and API Removals below) and should not effect most users.

Implementation improvements

• python3 compatability for our python scripts.
• more source code restructuring in preparation for 64-bit ports of seL4
• idle thread is run in system mode for all ARM platforms except for the KZM11.
• more work to remove duplication between libsel4 and kernel.

API Additions

• seL4_IRQControl_GetIOAPIC for x86.
• seL4_IRQControl_GetMSI for x86.

API Changes

• Total number of ASIDs for x86 reduced from 2\^16\^ to 2\^12\^ (max ASID 2\^12\^).
• seL4_BootInfo struct: userImagePDs and userImagePTs combined into userImagePaging in preparation for multilevel paging structures for 64 bit kernel support.
• Diminish rights removed from IPC

API Removals

• seL4_IRQ_SetMode removed (This only effects users who use the IOAPIC on x86, which is turned off by default).

API deprecations

• seL4_IA32_PageDirectory_Map deprecated for seL4_X86_PageDirectory_Map
• seL4_IA32_PageDirectory_Unmap deprecated for seL4_X86_PageDirectory_Unmap
• seL4_IA32_PageTable_Map deprecated for seL4_X86_PageTable_Map
• seL4_IA32_PageTable_Unmap deprecated for seL4_X86_PageTable_Unmap
• seL4_IA32_IOPageTable_Map deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPageTable_Map
• seL4_IA32_IOPageTable_Unmap deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPageTable_Unmap
• seL4_IA32_IOPageTable_Map deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPageTable_Map
• seL4_IA32_IOPageTable_Unmap deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPageTable_Unmap
• seL4_IA32_Page_Map deprecated for seL4_X86_Page_Map
• seL4_IA32_Page_Unmap deprecated for seL4_X86_Page_Unmap
• seL4_IA32_Page_Remap deprecated for seL4_X86_Page_Remap
• seL4_IA32_Page_MapIO deprecated for seL4_X86_Page_MapIO
• seL4_IA32_Page_GetAddress deprecated for seL4_X86_Page_GetAddress
• seL4_IA32_ASIDControl_MakePool deprecated for seL4_X86_ASIDControl_MakePool
• seL4_IA32_ASIDPool_Assign deprecated for seL4_X86_ASIDPool_Assign
• seL4_IA32_IOPort_In8 deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort_In8
• seL4_IA32_IOPort_In16 deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort_In16
• seL4_IA32_IOPort_In32 deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort_In32
• seL4_IA32_IOPort_Out8 deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort_Out8
• seL4_IA32_IOPort_Out16 deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort_Out16
• seL4_IA32_IOPort_Out32 deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort_Out32
• seL4_IA32_4K deprecated for seL4_X86_4K
• seL4_IA32_LargePage deprecated for seL4_X86_LargePageObject
• seL4_IA32_PageTableObject deprecated for seL4_X86_PageTableObject
• seL4_IA32_PageDirectoryObject deprecated for seL4_X86_PageDirectoryObject
• seL4_IA32_IOPageTableObject deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPageTableObject
• seL4_IA32_ASIDControl deprecated for seL4_X86_ASIDControl
• seL4_IA32_ASIDPool deprecated for seL4_X86_ASIDPool
• seL4_IA32_IOSpace deprecated for seL4_X86_IOSpace
• seL4_IA32_IOPort deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPort
• seL4_IA32_Page deprecated for seL4_X86_Page
• seL4_IA32_PDPT deprecated for seL4_X86_PDPT
• seL4_IA32_PageDirectory deprecated for seL4_X86_PageDirectory
• seL4_IA32_PageTable deprecated for seL4_X86_PageTable
• seL4_IA32_IOPageTable deprecated for seL4_X86_IOPageTable
• seL4_IA32_Default_VMAttributes deprecated for seL4_X86_Default_VMAttributes
• seL4_IA32_WriteBack deprecated for seL4_X86_WriteBack
• seL4_IA32_WriteThrough deprecated for seL4_X86_WriteThrough
• seL4_IA32_CacheDisabled deprecated for seL4_X86_CacheDisabled
• seL4_IA32_Uncacheable deprecated for seL4_X86_Uncacheable
• seL4_IA32_WriteCombining deprecated for seL4_X86_WriteCombining
• seL4_IA32_VMAttributes deprecated for seL4_X86_VMAttributes

Upgrade notes

This change is not source or binary compatible.

Users will need to remove calls to seL4_IRQ_SetMode, and upgrade any manual parsing of seL4_BootInfo.

Full changelog

Use git log 2.1.0..3.0.0

Other releases

See the full list of seL4 releases.