Hey Fabrizio​, I'm sorry we took so long to get back to you:

The underlying problem here is that we haven't yet finished defining and implementing a driver framework for our userspace code, so in order to satisfy dependencies, we began stuffing them into the io_ops struct. So since lots of devices depend on an initialized mux driver, what you see here is the result of that, unfortunately -- the good news is that we're currently defining a driver framework internally (https://docs.sel4.systems/seL4DriverAPI/ChildEnumeration.html is one of the draft pages of documentation -- but none of this is finalized) over the course of this year.

What I'd recommend is that you use the helper function, mux_sys_valid() in mux.h (https://github.com/seL4/util_libs/blob/master/libplatsupport/arch_include/arm/platsupport/mux.h#L35) inside of the ethernet driver, and map the whole 16K range inside of the IO-Ops initializer -- essentially what's going on there is that there's a dependency on the mux driver that's satisfied by the IO-Ops object.

Thanks very much for your patience,​ and this sort of thing should be cleaned up soon.

Yours truly,