Speaking of device drivers in MacOSX, if I'm not mistaken, it's built around the IOKit framework of Darwin.
On 7/26/05, Eduardo Tongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well.. here's a scary thought: the "value add" of OS X is really > > Quartz (Display PDF: which is by no means original, since Sun had > > Display Postscript in NeWS/OpenWindows back in 1994), the GUI, and the > > applications. > > > > But the kernel is pretty much bone-stock FreeBSD running on top of a > > Mach microkernel. This part is open-source, so it wouldn't be a > > stretch for people to write drivers for the kernel (tougher than just > > porting FreeBSD drivers, since FreeBSD is a "client" of the Mach > > microkernel, so you have to write the drivers for Mach). > > It's actually Darwin (which is based on FreeBSD). But the device driver model > is > very different and Darwin doesn't use mach as a microkernel. Aqua or > OSX probably > have run on x86 since day one because of Darwin. > > btw the mactelbase leak is not a fake (according to people @ > freenode), actually its just incomplete leak. you dont get aqua just > some of osx userland on x86. > > --ed > Eduardo Tongson <leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~ed> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and GNU/Linux Proponent _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
