Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:20:32 -0700 From: "Aaron" <click46@webpimps.net> To: "Garrett Rooney" <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Darwin and FreeBSD on PPC Message-ID: <20010928222247.D68FC37B40C@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010928173241.A27363@electricjellyfish.net>
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Thats what I was afraid of. I wondered where Mach came into play; now I know. I would really like to see FreeBSD on the PowerPC arch. In the long term scheme of things, I plan to try and learn PPC assembly [currently taking an intro x86 asm class] for this purpose. thanks for the reply, - aaron --------------------------------------------- click46[wp] - AIM the click46 - ICQ 43450396 webpimps.net | bsdatwork.com | nerdserve.net moderator - o/c cooling forum @ hardforum.com -----Original Message----- From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:32:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Darwin and FreeBSD on PPC > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:25:41PM -0700, Aaron wrote: > > My apologies if this has been brought up before [I could not find any > > mention of it] > > > > Since Darwin/OS X runs on the PowerPC arch, and its mostly based on > > FreeBSD; then why can't most of the code be ported back to FreeBSD to > > speed up the PPC port? Is it Apple's license or the fact that Darwin > has > > changed the FreeBSD kernel so drastically; or is my logic fatally > flawed? > > Darwin isn't really based on the FreeBSD kernel. It uses parts of > FreeBSD's userland and libraries, and some portions of the kernel > originated in FreeBSD (for example their /dev/random is a port of the > FreeBSD /dev/random), but their kernel is derived from NextStep, and > has significant differences from FreeBSD's kernel in many ways. > > -garrett > > -- > garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you > from > rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that > would > http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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