XDarwin support added to COMPAT_DARWIN on NetBSD

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NetBSD Emmanual Dreyfus says that COMPAT_DARWIN is now able to run MacOS X's XDarwin (this is, the X Window server for Darwin). The server is fully functional: display, keyboard and mouse work. He says that running Darwin has no interest in itself, but having it working ensures that NetBSD's IOKit (1) emulation is good enough to be used.

Darwin is Apple's MacOS X core. A fully functional Darwin binary compatibility on NetBSD/powerpc & NetBSD/i386 will imply getting MacOS X libraries to run any MacOS X program, just like NetBSD is now able to run binaries from Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and many other OSes.

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Subject: COMPAT_DARWIN status
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/02/2003 12:09:52
Hi everybody

COMPAT_DARWIN is now able to run MacOS X's XDarwin (this is, the X
Window server for Darwin). The server is fully functionnal: display,
keyboard and mouse work.

Running Darwin has no interest in itself, but having it working ensures
that our IOKit (1) emulation is good enough to be used . The real target
now is MacOS X's WindowServer. WindowServer is like XDarwin for the
quartz displaying system, which is used natively by MacOS X
applications.

See the status page at http://hcpnet.free.fr/applebsd.html for more
informations.

(1) Most I/O on Darwin use the IOKit, which is an object-oriented driver
framework with nothing in common with usual UNIX I/O APIs. Just peek at
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/compat/mach if you need to
be convinced it is a strange world.

--
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Il y a 10 sortes de personnes dans le monde: ceux qui comprennent
le binaire et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.
manu@netbsd.org