Hi Oak,

You're correct that capDL is not specific to CAmkES. The human-readable spec 
isn't XML, but a capDL-specific language.


CapDL consists of 2 parts:

- the capDL translator takes human-readable spec describing a seL4 system, and 
converts it into a c file

- the capDL loader is a program that is intended to run on seL4 in the root 
thread (the first userlevel thread with access to all resources). It creates 
kernel objects and distributes caps according to the spec. It gets statically 
linked against the c file produced by the translator, which is how it has 
access to the spec.


CAmkES generates a human-readable capDL spec. Using CAmkES, in our build 
system, after the build is complete, the capDL spec for an app named "example" 
will be located at "build/x86/pc99/example/example.cdl" (assuming the build 
targets x86). The c code generated from that spec will be located at 
"build/x86/pc99/capdl-loader-experimental/src/capdl_spec.c".


CapDL is not specific to CAmkES, in that it's possible to use capDL without 
CAmkES. In practice however, applications that run on seL4 without CAmkES tend 
not to use capDL.


The source for the capDL translator (capDL-tool) and loader (capdl-loader-app) 
can be found here: https://github.com/seL4/capDL


Can you clarify what you mean by "regular seL4".


Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Stephen


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From: Devel <[email protected]> on behalf of Norrathep Rattanavipanon 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2016 10:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [seL4] capDL configuration file

So I was reading capDL paper and it mentions about having a human-readable XML 
file for configuration of the initial thread which allows the system initialize 
into a know state.

I assume this is not specific to camkes.
so is there any way I can see/get the XML file and the code that generates it 
in the regular seL4?

Thanks,
Oak

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Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon
M.S. in Computer Science
University of California - Irvine
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