Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:20:42 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>, "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Nilton Jose Rizzo <rizzo@i805.com.br> Subject: Re: Is there possible run a MacOS X binary Message-ID: <dfa5b741-a61b-e995-6586-2061d2af5959@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHM0Q_MeZPNVmTFkQLC9z8=ABXiCSyOCDS2b5vDo7L0QKt8FeA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20161205161541.M51118@i805.com.br> <20161205174757.M9255@i805.com.br> <20161205193106.GA72310@neutralgood.org> <CANCZdfogLy2o27Cz3jh-uYMnZOBB3N=m6SzSMw7WkCvzP4mZ5w@mail.gmail.com> <CAHM0Q_MeZPNVmTFkQLC9z8=ABXiCSyOCDS2b5vDo7L0QKt8FeA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/7/16 10:57 AM, K. Macy wrote: >> >> > A MachO activator is indeed not useful without an OSX install. > > But let's be honest, Mach IPC is a loadable kernel module requiring no real > kernel changes. It's not upstreamable because of a general poor > understanding of IPC by noisy commentators and a religious aversion to a > technology perceived as having failed in the marketplace of ideas. I'd be happy to upstream it. Are there diffs relative to -current? -Alfred > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:45 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:49:07PM -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote: >>>> Sorry for cross posting (-current and -ports) >>>> Is there any emulator like linuxator to run Mac OS X binaries, or >>>> is ther any licensing problem? >>> It may be possible to make an emulator for Darwin (the OS that Mac OS >> sits >> >>> on top of), but an emulator for Mac OS would probably require a legal >> copy >> >>> of Mac OS. >>> So, no, there is no Mac OS emulator for FreeBSD. And I'd be surprised if >>> it ever happened. >> >> >> NetBSD has (or had) a macho image activator, which is the first step >> >> in this process. But Kevin is right that most of the functionality of >> >> MacOS isn't in the kernel, and you'd need a copy of MacOS to run it in >> >> emulation. Plus there's a lot of Mach code that MacOS depends on that >> >> has no simple counterparts in FreeBSD, and that would be a lot of work >> >> to make happen. It's one of the things that's a barrier to entry for a >> >> simple, straight forward launchd port, for example. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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