You may consider looking into a program called Simics. It is a machine simulator that lets you run a variety of platforms on a variety of hosts. Some the architectures they simulate are x86 and PPC. You could try to get Darwin to run on the x86 simulator. If you are a student of a university, you can get a free licence for a year. The program also supports debugging of system code and cycle accurate timing statistics. url: https://www.simics.net/ -Joey On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Kim-Thomas Moeller wrote:

Hello,

as part of my computer science studies I'm interested in the design of

the darwin kernel. Unfortunately, Darwin does not run stable on my x86

machines (probably due to mainboard problems), and I can't afford buying

an apple machine. So I'm searching for two tools, ideally running under

Linux:

Is the source of the Darwin MIG interface generator publicly available?

In what extent does it differ from GNU MIG?

Do you know any source code analysis tools one could use to get a better

understandig of the kernel code? I've heard there is a tool integrated

in the ProjectBuilder (which I don't own), but perhaps there are others,

preferrably free or at low cost.

Thanks,

Kim

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