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Nikolaus Schaller
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# NEWS - NEWS - NEWS
Someone else has (independently) picked up our (very old) idea and is successful:
Sources for that project (not related to ours):
# Idea
The idea is to port the OpenDarwin or PureDarwin kernel and kexts to run on ARM (and potentially other) devices.
# Discussion
A major issue is that all Linux on ARM projects assume ELF binaries while Darwin assumes MACH-O.
Fortunately the iPhone SDK has a ARM toolchain that produces Mach-O. So we should be able to build a ARM kernel (which needs patches to the Darwin configuration since Apple publishes the ppc and i86 versions only)
Since most devices we know (Freerunner, GTA04) boot through U-Boot we need to extract the kernel binary from the Mach-O binary into a simple uImage.bin. I.e. we need a Mach-O mkimage tool.
After we install the kernel on a SD card, it should mount a second partition of the SD card in HFS format so that it can load the kexts and bash etc. For that we also need ARM Mach-O binaries of the kextx and tools. I.e. we have to cross-compile these as well.
Another option would be to add an ELF-Loader to Darwin and use the Debian ARMEL binaries. In that case we still have to cross-compile the kexts. Some of them have to be adapted to ARM and the target machine (GTA02, GTA04, Beagleboard, Pandaboard) anyway.
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