linux-kernel - Space-Certified CPUs and Linux

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Message-ID: <20120824201846.GA11418@isi.edu>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:18:46 -0700
From:	Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@....edu>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, wbrana <wbrana@...il.com>,
	Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@...ek.dk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Space-Certified CPUs and Linux

On 12.08.24, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Random question.  As I recall the Space Shuttle and the International
> Space Station was only using 80386's because they have to be hardened
> against radiation/cosmic rays, as well as all of the other mechnical
> and thermal stresses associated with being in a spacecraft.  Is there
> any newer generation cpu's which are space-cerified at this point?

	The MAESTRO processor is a rad-hard-by-design variant of the Tilera
architecture, intended for space applications.  Linux runs on it.

	The Mongoose-V is a rad-hard MIPS R3000 processor.  It can run
VxWorks, made by Wind River (a subsidiary of Intel since 2009).

http://www.synova.com/proc/mg5.html

	Rad-hard Power PCs are the current space workhorse.  Several variants
are available.  NASA has run Linux on at least one of them in space, but I
believe that VxWorks is more the norm.

> (Of course, I'm rather doubtful that NASA would ever be willing to use
> Linux on something like the Curiosity Mars Rover, but I could imagine
> Linux being used in a non-mission critcal system on the ISS....)

	Linux has been use on scientific equipment sent to the ISS.
Not, I think, on the avionics.

	Curiosity runs VxWorks, as do the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon.

					Craig Milo Rogers
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