Google comes up with new OS for RISC-V
@ 2022/10/19KataOS is more secure
Search engine outfit Google has shown off its KataOS, a new secure operating system for embedded open-source RISC-V chips.
Google's KataOS is written "almost entirely in Rust” which removes entire classes of bugs, such as off-by-one errors and buffer overflows.
The project's GitHub page emphasises that KataOS and its umbrella project name, Sparrow, "are a work in progress."
The company said it wanted to build a secure platform that's optimised for embedded devices that run ML applications.
Search engine outfit Google has shown off its KataOS, a new secure operating system for embedded open-source RISC-V chips.
Google's KataOS is written "almost entirely in Rust” which removes entire classes of bugs, such as off-by-one errors and buffer overflows.
The project's GitHub page emphasises that KataOS and its umbrella project name, Sparrow, "are a work in progress."
The company said it wanted to build a secure platform that's optimised for embedded devices that run ML applications.