bofors Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 L4/Darwin (aka Darbat) The L4/Darwin project is an experimental port of Darwin to the L4 microkernel to study the characteristics of a large-scale microkernel-based system. It includes a port of IOKit to L4, a modified libc to communicate with the Darbat Server, and of course XNU with many of the machine-dependent parts heavily modified (pmap, thread/task creation, etc) but much left unchanged (most of BSD, and large parts of OSFMK work without modification). http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/software/darbat/ The Wikipedia entry provides and interesting comparison of L4 with Mach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phb Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 Read about this on the darwin lists. Pretty darn cool. Too bad XNU hasn't (will it ever be) been relased for darwin 8.5. :/ would be cool to exchange the kernel and still be able to run OSX /Johan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 I read about this at ArsTechnica. One of the guys working on "Darbat" is talking about the project there: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/fo.../m/645003648731 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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