[Community] Darwin kernel for GTA04?

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 25.11.2013 um 23:12 schrieb Parchet Michaël:

> Hello,
> 
> This news is funny for me
> 
> I boot a Mac and I'm interested for the port unix project such as macport.org and MacOSforgue.org 

yes, that should also run on a GTA04 with Darwin kernel.

What IMHO is also worth discussing is the upsides and downsides of the idea to run a non-Linux kernel to the GTA04.

Some of my thoughts:
* AFAIK Darwin has a more fine grained power management scheme (I don't know if it is implemented for our SoC or if it is a ToDo)
* the IOKit driver model uses C++ for writing drivers (which should be more powerful)
* Darwin is optimized for audio and video
* Darwin has very stable APIs (external and internal)
* but it lacks a lot of drivers that are available in Linux
* it also lacks a big and vital developer community

> 
> I  hop to see the result.

me too :)

I still expect some challenge...

BR,
Nikolaus

> 
> Best regards
> 
> mparchet
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 25 nov. 2013 à 19:12, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> it may be rarely known that I was originally (since ca. 1992) a big fan of Apple's technology,
>> before they introduced iTunes and iPhone and neglected the good old fans. Fans who did
>> look for the technically better solution to simplify the work of programmers, and wanted to
>> do with the technology provided by Apple what they wanted to do. This has changed that
>> now one can do what Apple's policies allow one to do.
>> 
>> And being a big fan of the Sharp Zaurus (sort of a Baby-MacBook :) I wondered almost
>> exactly 9 years ago, back in 2004 [1] if it could be possible to port the open source Darwin
>> kernel to such an ARM based device. The project did die in 2005 but got another wave
>> of interest in 2008 after the Neo Freerunner did appear (the last page of the linked forum)
>> 
>> Now I read that there is a new Darwin-on-ARM project [2] at Github [3] and it
>> seems to be successful to run on the N900 or a Beagleboard!
>> 
>> So there is most likely only a small step to port that to a GTA04. When I find some time I
>> will look deeper into it and would be happy if there are some of you also interested.
>> 
>> -- hns
>> 
>> [1]: http://www.osxentwicklerforum.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1445 [[in German]]
>> [2]: http://winocm.com/projects/research/2013/11/22/milestone-one/
>> [3]: https://github.com/darwin-on-arm
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