Darwin on ARMish platforms
Darwin on ARMish platforms
- Subject: Darwin on ARMish platforms
- From: rms <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:26:01 -0500
Hello all,
What is the actual point in keeping a proprietary ARM fork of xnu? I understand iBoot, but it is trivial to write an xnu booter for ARM/ARM-like devices. (In fact, it's very easy to even write basic kernel extensions.) A lot of the source code lurks on opensource.apple.com for other projects (such as LibC), so what difference does it make?
The necessary platform expert kext and ARMIO kext can also easily be made from IODTPlatformExpert and AppleMacIODevice, so that wouldn't be needed. (I did write a few kernel extensions that did perform the job for this on S5L at least.)
Messing with kxld and kernelcaches is fun when you guys take everything out but forget about some other things.
Thanks.
--rms
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