RE: Musings on Darwin ...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Potter [mailto:shun@mail.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:26 PM
> To: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Musings on Darwin ...
>
>
> I recall waay back on Apr 05 when Brent Fulgham wrote:
>
> > Darwin is now purportedly available for i386 (or rather, it compiles
> > under i386 but may not yet quite work).
> [...]
>
> I was having similar thoughts myself. The important thing is
> that Darwin is a Mach-based microkernel, much like Hurd. I wonder
> if the two sets of developers couldn't cooperate on a number of
> things. It would be yet another non-Linux port. But it is also
> fairly interesting, because there is the possibility of fat binary
> packages (i.e., it ALL goes in -all).
>
Well, the Hurd is a multi-server, while BSD/Darwin is a single-server.
So there are some rather large differences in the overall architecture.
Still, there should be *some* crossover.
> Does anyone know anything else about the availability of an
> i386 version?
No, but we seem to have our own built-in expert (who is sneakily
not answering my e-mail to him today) :-)
Voila -- from Fred Sachez himself:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilfredo Sanchez [mailto:wsanchez@apple.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:28 PM
> To: Brent Fulgham
> Cc: kdienes@apple.com
> Subject: Re: FW: Debian Darwin
>
> | I'm just hoisting a flag here, but since Darwin is already
> | configured using Debian tools we might be interested in a
> | Debian-Darwin port if we can fire it up under Intel at some
> | point (the usual poor developer's workstation).
>
> I don't know what's involved. Klee's a Debian guy, and he wrote
> the tools for Darwin.
>
> | Do you know if it's possible to cross-compile Darwin from an Intel
> | Linux, or for that matter an Intel BSD? Where could I find
> | info about what pieces are missing, etc.?
>
> It would be a lot easier, I think to cross build from PowerPC to
> Intel during the bringup. I don't know how hard it would be to
> cross-build from Linux or BSD, but the getting the complier tool
> chain to work would be a challenge, I think.
>
> -Fred
>
>
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