Darbat, the L4/Darwin port, has just had its second public release. Darbat Release 0.2 boots natively on Apple Intel EFI hardware and offers binary compatibility with Intel OS X applications and IOKit device drivers. Simple Darbat system call performance is comparable with that of Mac OS X 10.4.6. You can download the source or a binary distribution to boot a simple demo on hardware. The release notes contain an overview of the Darbat design and implementation.
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Member since:
2005-07-06
Member since:
2005-07-06
...take the EFI boot code and make use of it? I know it is a different kernel, but I would imagine the bulk of the code is more-or-less generic and could be molded to fit the BSD kernels? I would love to see FreeBSD/NetBSD boot natively and easily on my mini core duo. That and getting airport extreme to work.
They say that the system call performance is on par with mac os x but... wouldn't part of the reason for doing this be to resolve some of the lock issues that have been recorded (ars technica I think it was) for server-based applications?
Ah well, very cool anyway!
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2005-11-14
Member since:
2006-01-22
take a mac-mini, refund back OSX and run darwin on L4 because it has all the apps I need. Neither Apple looses, nor I. Apple can make a distribution of Darbat ( Darwin on L4) like Novell, for x86 architecture, AMD/Intel/Via. It is not a problem to run Darbat with nice OpenDarwin apps on an Apple Celeron-D. I think it is a win-win for Apple.
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2006-06-27
Member since:
2005-11-06
