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Porting the Darwin kernel to the AArch64/ARMv7/ARMv6-A architectures.
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OSX-on-arm #29

Open npyl opened 9 years ago

npyl commented 9 years ago

Hello, I would like to ask if this could be possible:

Could be possible to run OSX on an arm device?? Understand some problems such as that all the closed source software is compiled for different cpu architecture but I was thinking we could implement a qemu based module in the kernel to do cpu virtualisation.

Also we could write the drivers for graphics, sound etc!!!

Could it be possible???

probonopd commented 9 years ago

Technically it would probably be possible but the amount of work required would exceed a small hobbyist project like this by far. Legally it is an interesting question since as far as I know OS X is licensed to run on "Apple-branded computers". Running it on an ARM-based iPhone or iPad would probably fulfill the "Apple-branded" requirement, but whether these devices can be called a "computer" might possibly be a lengthy legal debate.

npyl commented 9 years ago

I understand!! :D Thank you very much!!