[okl4-developer] Few Basic Questions

[karthik.V.M]

Hi all,

I was introduced to OKL4 very recently and a newbie to microkernels. It was
really interesting to work with OKL4 and the tutorials are really helpful.
Based on the brief study of OKL4, I could get the following points and few
questions:

1) OKL4 SDK is used for creating apps which runs on top of OKL4 on a
specific platform. When we have the specific platform or hardware targeted
by the SDK, we can directly use the SDK to create apps on the platform. If
we dont have the hardware we can use the simulator to simulate the platform
and use the SDK to build and run the apps on OKL4 running on the simulated
platform.

Q1:  While building the examples in the SDK,  the build compiles the
application and links against a pre-built kernel(either micro or nano). So
the final executable built is a L4 kernel which runs only this particular
application and exits(i.e the kernel & application are tied up). Am I
correct? 

Q2: Can I install OKL4 just like a normal OS on a hardware/simulator and run
the same application on top of it? If yes, how to achieve it?

Please excuse me if my questions are at novice level. I am starting to learn
microkernels (OKL4 in particular) and your inputs are valuable.

Thanks for your time,
karthik
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