On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
As there is FreeBSD port to the PowerPC and its peripherals, this
machine will make a very interesting target for FreeBSD: combine the
x86 code base with the PowerPC drivers and get a real hot machine.
The *really* hot machine is going to be the OSX ABI supported under
FreeBSD and running Aqua. I betcha this happens FAST.
I doubt it would be fast at all if it even happens. Unlike Linux,
svr4, and ibcs2, OS X is not just a POSIXish UNIX kernel. It also
includes mach so there would have to be a lot of emulation to support
that. OS X also tends to define its interface not at the kernel
syscall level but at the library API level (from what I have heard),
which means that it might require having custom versions of the base
system frameworks ala Wine which would be an enormous amount of work.
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John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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