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They could open source their software so others could utilise the code instead of needing reverse engineering

• Danox 19d ago
  Darwin is open source has been for 25-26 years is it too much hard work? https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://www.puredarwin.org/ https://www.puredarwin.org/
  • maven29 19d ago
    They've done the userspace bringup for linux since apple silicon servers allegedly exist. The drivers exist already so just throwing the device tree over the wall can't be that hard. Nobody is asking for systemready/UEFI or mainline linux. https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200658399-0645/linux-kernel-engineer?team=SFTWR https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200658399-0645/linux-ke... I suspect that they might be changing their mind about upstreaming?
    • nijave 17d ago
      Eh, they probably have enough server hardware/infrastructure and potentially custom accelerators and other hardware that staffing a team makes sense Quick web search says they at least need some kernel developers for virtualized Linux on macOS
  • Meneth 19d ago
    PureDarwin doesn't work on any of the M-series machines, and according to the Github commit log, hasn't been updated since 2024.
  • nijave 18d ago
    Which doesn't even boot on modern Apple hardware without all the closed source bits...