Re: intel source code release
Re: intel source code release
- Subject: Re: intel source code release
- From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:15:25 -0500 (EST)
Graham J Lee writes:
> On 17/2/06 19:44, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
> >
> >
> > What would be interesting to see in the Intel source version is the
> > explanation why one week before the announcement of Mac OS X for Intel
> > at WWDC, the x86 version of Darwin was said to be a dying 3-leg horse
> > from a performance point of view with no hope of recovery and now, since
> > the release of the Intel iMac Core Duo, it is (or stated to be) a stalion.
> >
> > This could help me for turf related stuff :)
> >
> I think (or at least, it appears to be) because "Darwin/x86" and "Darwin
> on OS X for Intel" are probably different beasties. I'm surprised
> there's not been more activity over on darwin-x86@ actually...
They've already broken the IOKit driver ABI between Darwin and MacOSX
on Intel by removing padding from critical C++ classes so that
modules built on Darwin will not load on MacOSX, and vice-versa. So
there is at least one difference.
Drew
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