Hi all, recently I "switched" my Intel desktop to Mac OS X. Coming from a FreeBSD background, the first thing I did was google for the way to checkout and build the Mach kernel from a latest snapshot. I carried out the procedure at http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/Building_X... to build a new kernel on my Mac OS X desktop, but this raised a few questions. 1) The documentation on building your own mach_kernel seems a bit sparse, it felt a bit unsupported. Is it even considered useful to track the kernel on a Mac OS X box? Is there a mailinglist specifically for people doing this? 2) I checked out the source using 'cvs co -r Apple-201-5' as in the (mildly dated) HOWTO. This seemed to get me 6.2 which was to be expected from the old tag, so I tried 'cvs co -r HEAD xnu' to get a recent version. Strangely enough, this also looked like an older version than the regular /mach_kernel 6.3 that is supplied with Mac OS X 10.2.3: rez:src> strings xnu-HEAD/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_PPC/mach_kernel | grep "6\.3" rez:src> strings xnu-HEAD/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_PPC/mach_kernel | grep "6\.2" 'com.apple.kernel' = '6.2'; 'com.apple.kernel.bsd' = '6.2'; 'com.apple.kernel.iokit' = '6.2'; [...] rez:src> strings /mach_kernel | grep "6\.3" 'com.apple.kernel' = '6.3'; 'com.apple.kernel.bsd' = '6.3'; 'com.apple.kernel.iokit' = '6.3'; [...] I'd rather not run an older kernel than the stock kernel, does anyone have any information on how to get recent sources from CVS? Is there a STABLE-ish tag to test new stuff but stay exempt from too much breakage? :) Is it also possible to build the userland tools? 3) Most boot loaders such as FreeBSD's boot2 give you the option to boot a different kernel image by interrupting with some key. How can I save myself in Mac OS X on PPC hardware when I happen to boot into an invalid kernel? I found some info using a serial console, but that seems like a bit overkill... 4) I already have found a few gripes (mostly in mount_smbfs) that I can document fairly well, although I don't know enough about the kernel to create patches. What is the recommended procedure to report these half-hearted bug reports? Thanks in advance for the info :) walter -- Walter Hop <wh@slik.org> | +31 6 24452020 | http://www.skydancer.nl/ _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.