On 12/7/16 10:57 AM, K. Macy wrote: >> >> > A MachO activator is indeed not useful without an OSX install. > > But let's be honest, Mach IPC is a loadable kernel module requiring no real > kernel changes. It's not upstreamable because of a general poor > understanding of IPC by noisy commentators and a religious aversion to a > technology perceived as having failed in the marketplace of ideas. I'd be happy to upstream it. Are there diffs relative to -current? -Alfred > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:45 Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn_at_neutralgood.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:49:07PM -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote: >>>> Sorry for cross posting (-current and -ports) >>>> Is there any emulator like linuxator to run Mac OS X binaries, or >>>> is ther any licensing problem? >>> It may be possible to make an emulator for Darwin (the OS that Mac OS >> sits >> >>> on top of), but an emulator for Mac OS would probably require a legal >> copy >> >>> of Mac OS. >>> So, no, there is no Mac OS emulator for FreeBSD. And I'd be surprised if >>> it ever happened. >> >> >> NetBSD has (or had) a macho image activator, which is the first step >> >> in this process. But Kevin is right that most of the functionality of >> >> MacOS isn't in the kernel, and you'd need a copy of MacOS to run it in >> >> emulation. Plus there's a lot of Mach code that MacOS depends on that >> >> has no simple counterparts in FreeBSD, and that would be a lot of work >> >> to make happen. It's one of the things that's a barrier to entry for a >> >> simple, straight forward launchd port, for example. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Fri Dec 09 2016 - 04:20:53 UTC
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