Linux in mixed-criticality systems [LWN.net]

Linux in mixed-criticality systems

Posted Jan 3, 2019 16:02 UTC (Thu) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
In reply to: Linux in mixed-criticality systems by murukesh
Parent article: Linux in mixed-criticality systems

Lots of gripping stuff for the embedded software engineer here. I found it compulsive reading.

https://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-...
http://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/Bookout_v_Toyota_Ba...

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Toyota's Unintended Acceleration

Posted Jan 6, 2019 1:02 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Fascinating, thanks.

Whether these bugs are real or not and no matter who "wins" this eventually, Toyota and others should already have learned a lesson the hard way: every time human life is at stake legal costs alone far outweigh any development cost saved by sloppy programming. While a rather low bar it's still a somewhat "good" bit of news.

People cope with getting screwed over again and again by $BIGCORP and the 0.1% but funny enough there's always this line that you really can't cross: they don't like to... die.

Now rebooting my smartphone to work around some memory leak and other random issues...