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> which provides secure isolation of each individual driver

seL4 is great and all, but this is simply not possible as long as hardware devices can access memory. For example, a graphics driver can program the GPU to overwrite arbitrary system memory, regardless of how drivers are "isolated" by the kernel.

a graphics driver can program the GPU to overwrite arbitrary system memory

Unless there's a hardware IOMMU configured by Genode, Xen, etc, http://transpute.github.io/test1/related/

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