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> (modified?) By now, iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches boot XNU proper (meaning their kernel is no longer compiled from a fork but from the proper XNU code bas
by Hackbraten 7y ago
> (modified?)
By now, iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches boot XNU proper (meaning their kernel is no longer compiled from a fork but from the proper XNU code base).
It’s still a modified kernel in a broader sense: platform-and architecture-dependent modules, ifdefs, a different set of kernel modules, exclusive/missing system calls and other extraneous/missing features (e. g. no kext loading infrastructure).