site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com 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/ // Christian Brunschen _______________________________________________ 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... 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 This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com