site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com I thought that they are about the same and therefore there can not be much difference in the source code files except for comments. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4393120 Jun 24 12:27 mach_kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 8543400 Sep 24 2006 mach_kernel.orig rick ps: I suspect mach_kernel.orig was actually an older 10.4 that 10.4.9, looking at the date on it. Run: file /mach_kernel file /mach_kernel.orig And you will see what I mean... To do the extraction do: sudo lipo /mach_kernel.orig -thin i386 -output /mach_kernel.orig.i386 Now repeat run: file /mach_kernel.orig.i386 Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... On 30 Oct 2007, at 18:39, Rick Macklem wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Michael Tuexen wrote: I'm only interested in what is going in the file /mach_kernel. So are you saying that I'm not able to build a /mach_kernel file for the Intel platform using the available xnu sources for 10.4.8 which is equivalent to the /mach_kernel file Apple provides as part of 10.4.8? Just fyi, here's an "ls -l" for 10.4.9 on Intel. Despite the size difference, the kernel from sources seems to work fine on the hardware we have. (Does the vanilla one have more stuff linked in, instead of loading kexts? Haven't a clue.) Your comparison is flawed. You are comparing a single arch kernel (mach_kernel) with a bi-arch kernel (mach_kernel.org). A proper comparison would extract the single arch portion matching your architecture from the fat, original kernel and then you can compare the two sizes... And that show the same as "file /mach_kernel". And now you can compare the sizes properly... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com