Xen Project Summit 2024

As several open source projects are heading towards functional safety, mostly to achieve a safety certification as a Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) the question of what this really means comes up quite often. There are usually three stakeholders in a project like this The project community that needs to provide the qualification evidences and keep up with the requests from a certification authority The assessor representing the certification authority, and The integrator, who actually wants to use the certified software As all these stakeholders have different expectations of what this certification will require, there are a lot of different rumours and opinions out there regarding functional safety certification. This talk will give an introduction to what qualification evidence is usually prepared and assessed for a SEooC certification, what this means for the project and how it can actually be integrated into a safety relevant software system. There will be examples how the Zephyr Project addresses this, to initiate cross-pollination between the safety open source projects and working groups.