As you are all probably aware of (I hope), I maintain an open-source port of the XNU (iPhone OS/Mac OS X) kernel to ARMv7-A (soon AArch64 and ARMv6/v5!) platforms. The kernel is very bare in its implementation and needs a lot of work. Work seems to also not be put into the proper areas, so I made this article to rectify that issue. Simple enough, I hope.
Very interesting (via @stroughtonsmith).
XNU, an acronym for “X is Not Unix” (according to Wikipedia).
Also, the kernel behind MacOS X, which is registered by the OpenGroup as conforming to the UNIX 03 specification, making it Unix (and capable of using Unix-related copyrights in advertising).
so is it unrealistic to expect a puredarwin/xdarwin on rapsberry or beagle/panda boards?
is the platform.kext open source?
If you clicked the link in the linked tweet, you’d see that he has plans on porting to ARMv6, which Raspberry Pi’s Arm11 chip uses.
XNU has also run on ARMv6 before, in the form of older iPod Touches and iPhones.
And, yes, the source is available via Github.