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Proposal involving the XNU Kernel

Melab

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Rewriting the XNU kernel  

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  1. 1. Would you like to see the XNU kernel rewritten and released under a permissive license?

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    • Doesn't matter to me, but it would be interesting.
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  2. 2. Would this be something that you would like to do or help out with?

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I've been thinking and it doesn't seem that the XNU kernel is too big. That said I was wondering if anyone would be interested in rewriting the XNU kernel file-by-file to make a Darwin compatible kernel that can licensed under the New BSD license instead of the more restrictive Apple Public Source License? One advantage of this is that we could write ARM-compatible code for use on mobile devices. Input is welcome.

 

Edit #1: I just rewrote reloc.h found under /EXTERNAL_HEADERS/mach-o/arm/ in xnu-1504.9.26.

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