On 7/26/05, Eduardo Tongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > 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.
No, Darwin (FreeBSD) *does* run on top of CMU Mach 4.4 just like the old Nextstep/Openstep on which it's based. I think they have migrated to a newer version of Mach, but it's still Mach. Regardless, the point does not change: you can't use FreeBSD x86 drivers, because FreeBSD is just a client on top of Mach. You have to provide Mach drivers for all the x86 hardware you want to support. _________________________________________________ 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
