Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:27:48 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> Cc: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 Message-ID: <732767b54cd8713b8b06e44ebfc9f791@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42A7D3DB.9080300@sasktel.net> References: <20050608212440.EDE1520F01@krell.webweaver.net> <42A7AAA6.7070608@pacific.net.sg> <42A7D3DB.9080300@sasktel.net>
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote: > >> As there is FreeBSD port to the PowerPC and its peripherals, this >> machine will make a very interesting target for FreeBSD: combine the >> x86 code base with the PowerPC drivers and get a real hot machine. > > The *really* hot machine is going to be the OSX ABI supported under > FreeBSD and running Aqua. I betcha this happens FAST. I doubt it would be fast at all if it even happens. Unlike Linux, svr4, and ibcs2, OS X is not just a POSIXish UNIX kernel. It also includes mach so there would have to be a lot of emulation to support that. OS X also tends to define its interface not at the kernel syscall level but at the library API level (from what I have heard), which means that it might require having custom versions of the base system frameworks ala Wine which would be an enormous amount of work. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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