site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 15:26, Andrew Gallatin<gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:

You seem to be under the (common) misconception that FreeBSD and Darwin share kernel code.  For the most part, they do not. Implementing MSI-X support in Darwin would be totally different than in FreeBSD, for example.

No, I'm not. I'm well aware that, although FreeBSD and XNU share some BSD heritage (as Mach 2 was comingled with a BSD Unix kernel), they have diverged significantly internally.

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to appear in 10.6 (we know “64-bit kernel” definitely will, for a start)?

If I knew (which I do, since I'm an ADC member, and have been running the 10.6 seeds) I could not tell you due to NDA.

…which is why I said “likely”. many rumours are circulating, and Apple has released quite a lot of information publicly now. M. -- http://nevali.net _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com