cross-port from: https://programming.dev/post/5377847
Ironclad is a formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses, written in SPARK and Ada. It is comprised of 100% free software, free in the sense that it respects the user’s freedom.
Some of the supported features are:
- A familiar POSIX-compatible interface.
- True simultaneous preemptive multitasking.
- Advanced cryptography and a security-centered architecture.
- Mandatory Access Control (MAC).
- Highly configurable, hard real-time scheduling.
- Support for several architectures and boards.
Today (4 Nov 2023) at 14:00 UTC the author will preset it on Ada Monthly Meetup!
The idea that Tesla has that mindset in production and not just the design process is really funny to me