Any chance the OS/X drivers could be "fitted" into the normal linux
structure? An OS/X compatability layer could be fairly useful.
Tony

tm wrote:
> Any chance the OS/X drivers could be "fitted" into the normal linux
> structure? An OS/X compatability layer could be fairly useful.

OS X uses a completely different kernel, and the hardware it runs on is
different, at least in part. (different CPU type, for example.) so while
theoretically probably not impossible, the task is far from trivial.

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Joost Kremers wrote:
> tm wrote:
>
>>Any chance the OS/X drivers could be "fitted" into the normal linux
>>structure? An OS/X compatability layer could be fairly useful.
>
>
> OS X uses a completely different kernel, and the hardware it runs on is
> different, at least in part. (different CPU type, for example.) so while
> theoretically probably not impossible, the task is far from trivial.
>
I wasn't thinking that the drivers would not be open source. I need more
sleep than I thought.
The kernel isn't so much the issue as the binary driver files being in
powerpc machine code, totally missed the mark there.

Oh well, I am sure there are lots of people ready to create a power pc
emulation driver just to do this very thing.

oh well, its nice to dream.
(...man i am tired...)
Thanks for the redirect.
Tony

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:04:24 +0000, tm wrote:
> Joost Kremers wrote:
>> tm wrote:
>>
>>>Any chance the OS/X drivers could be "fitted" into the normal linux
>>>structure?

Mac OS X (Darwin) runs BSD on a Mach microkernel which is a OSS project:
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

And since the mkLinux project also exists (Linux on Mach):
http://www.mklinux.org/

>> An OS/X compatability layer could be fairly useful.

I would think hardware drivers, could be ported between above projects...

>> OS X uses a completely different kernel,

Indeed. It's BSD on top of Mach.

>> and the hardware it runs on is different, at least in part. (different
>> CPU type, for example.)

I guess i don't realy understand what the OP is asking ...

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> Oh well, I am sure there are lots of people ready to create a power pc
> emulation driver just to do this very thing.

http://www.maconlinux.org/

> oh well, its nice to dream.

Is this all about emulating a PPC chip on x86 hardware, or some such?

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