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If I remember correctly, someone did an article a while back on getting xnu to run on ARM because of the AirPort.
by protomyth 10y ago
If I remember correctly, someone did an article a while back on getting xnu to run on ARM because of the AirPort.
- sirn 10y agoAFAIK, AirPort is actually running NetBSD[1], with the first generation being VxWorks. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxvOgd2T2nA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxvOgd2T2nA
- ksec 10y agoInteresting. Any idea Why NetBSD and Not FreeBSD? Since they both support MIPS, and surely Apple is more familiar with the FreeBSD codebase given the similarities with OSX. I am going to assume future model will likely be ARM based, and therefore moving towards iOS as well.
- jquast 10y agoI don't know for sure but my guess would be netbsd's cross-compile toolchain is very good--that is, to compile MIPS binaries from an x86