Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:03:10 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship Message-ID: <F11DF5DE-A4A5-4BC5-AF4A-781E0B40CB5B@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <6F1715DF-D31C-4610-872D-7A5E8457B8EF@shire.net> References: <AANLkTinqpOeSro5dPJJ-yRa%2BZMDD0Nphu%2B4wd9Raxex7@mail.gmail.com> <6F1715DF-D31C-4610-872D-7A5E8457B8EF@shire.net>
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On Mar 9, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > There are some/a few/several people working at Apple that play or used = to play a large role in FreeBSD. So they were basically paying these = people's salaries for their day job which allowed them to be active in = FreeBSD. Also, there is some code put-back I believe. Of particular note was the contributions of patches to fix NFS race = conditions. Plus tools to stress and duplicate those conditions. > Most of what Apple used from FreeBSD was the userland and the kernel = interface so that the Darwin kernel could be used with FreeBSD userland = utilities that affect the kernel etc. Mac OS X uses a totally = different underlying kernel and architecture but made a FreeBSD like = kernel interface in order to be able to use certain sets of FreeBSD = stuff. Believe a number of FreeBSD drivers made it into MacOS X. Don't know of = any Apple product which used Intel Etherexpress Pro chipsets but I = popped a PCI card in a Mac one day and it magically worked as if it had = always been there. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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