Re: MacCentral Post
Re: MacCentral Post
- Subject: Re: MacCentral Post
- From: Christian Brunschen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:14:26 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Lance Westerhoff writes:
>
> Perhaps people here may want to comment. Admittedly, I'm a lurker
> more then a kernel hacker, but I thought this was addressed weeks/
> months ago with the recent release of the source of the kernel for
> Intel.
The Intel kernel sources have never been released. Or at least
there is no xnu in the 10.4.{4,5,6}.x86 download pages at
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
It is a shame the kernel is now officially closed.
There's nothing 'official' about that opinion post on Macworld - it's one
guy's opinion. True, you can't get the xnu project for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
for x86; however, there may be other reasons for that than Apple deciding
to close the source code. If Apple _had_ decided, I would have expected
them to also pull the source code for xnu on PC, yet that is still
available. My personal conjecture/speculation/wishful thinking is that the
current Mac OS X 10.4.6 / Darwin 8.6 xnu for x86 source code is not in a
state where Apple want to release it, and that they are working on
releasing a unified Mac OS X 10.5.0 / Darwin 9.0 xnu for PPC & x86 in its
stead. I.e., they managed to get 10.4 working on x86, but it possibly
includes some hacks they don't want to show the world; these hacks won't
be necessary in the unified 10.5 code. Again, this is my speculation, but
I think it is at least similarly plausible as the 'the sky is falling'
conjecture from the Macworld opinion post.
Drew
// Christian Brunschen
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