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xnu

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    Is Apple finally gonna close the source for XNU along with archiving the current one?

    So regarding that concern is the XNU gonna be kept open source or is it gonna be archived soon once Tahoe is on it's last release? Maybe even Apple could go back to unsigning previous ipsw for Macs that are not even updated for Apple Silicon as the next phase from either Goldengate or macOS 28.
  2. Apple Fan 2008

    macOS Darwin on RISC-V?

    I’ve been wondering how plausible it would be to port Darwin or even just XNU over to RISC-V. I already downloaded the XNU source code and have been poking around a little, but I would likely need to really get into RISC-V assembly to make a working build. (Which I will do as soon as I get a...