From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 30 11:18:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D704D37B40A for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:18:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 92569 invoked by uid 3130); 30 Sep 2001 18:17:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:17:23 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: Umesh Vaishampayan Cc: Aaron , freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Darwin and FreeBSD on PPC Message-ID: <20010930141722.A91046@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20010928173241.A27363@electricjellyfish.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from umeshv@apple.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0700, Umesh Vaishampayan wrote: > > On Friday, September 28, 2001, at 02:32 PM, Garrett Rooney wrote: > > > (for example their /dev/random is a port of the > > FreeBSD /dev/random) > > Not really. There was a patch that did a port. But the code that is > checked is based on the Security Server we had in 10.0. ahh, i stand corrected. i was under the impression that louis's port of /dev/random had been adopted, but it's been a while since i've followed the darwin mailing lists, so i guess i'm out of date. > > but their kernel is derived from NextStep, > > Well... > > At NeXT we had Mach 2.x+4.3BSD+DriverKit. > In Darwin Mach 2.X is replaced by Mach 3.x > 4.3BSD ia replaced by 4.4BSD Lites2 + FreeBSD 3.X networking > DriverKit is replaced by IOKit. in any case, substantial portions of darwin are different enough from FreeBSD to make using code from Darwin for the FreeBSD ppc port difficult. -- 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