Thread: Darwin/ARM running on a Nokia N900
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2013-11-25 , 23:33
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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
I do have to ask though, why did you choose to port Darwin over FreeBSD? I'm struggling to think of any advantage for choosing Darwin unless you have some kind of crazy long-term goal of an iOS or OS X compatibility layer. :P
The ARM bringup was done by a winocm.

Binaries compiled for iOS actually already do run (look for Terminal packages on Cydia...)

Binary kernel drivers from iOS devices will very likely not work - which means no SGX535 driver (among others)
Also, the way OMAP handles the framebuffer (OMAPFB, OMAPDSS) means that getting iOS as-is on the N9/50/00 is a moonshot.

The biggest blocker for daily use right now is the keypad not working. IIRC you have to use it with a serial terminal for now.
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