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that's quite an achievement and great news! But looking at it from a more practical viewpoint; why run darwin if you can run linux on arm and phones already? Ev
by fsiefken 13y ago
that's quite an achievement and great news!
But looking at it from a more practical viewpoint; why run darwin if you can run linux on arm and phones already? Even on iOS itself, with a jailbroken phone you can ssh into the underlying OS and execute arm binaries through the shell.
I can imagine it's a stepping stone towards running iOS in QEMU for running apps on your desktop or tablet, which is nice as I could run my bought Eclipse, Tigris and Tikal boardgames on my desktop. I am not sure if I'd break the EULA in that scenario.
- winocm 13y agoNot every phone has a jailbreak available for it. Plus, you're still stuck with an effectively sandboxed kernel. You can't fix any bugs or implement any kernel level drivers, for example. If I need a new IOKit driver class, I simply build the kext and use `kextload`, or I can just prelink it into the kernelcache.
- protomyth 13y agoPlus, not every ARM device is a phone and there are OSes other than Linux. I hope we see som 64-bit ARM ITX sized motherboards.