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Darwin 20.5.0 on ARM1176 (Raspberry Pi Zero)

I thought I should mention this, because I've seen a lot of people start working on XNU again, which is great to see as a PureDarwin maintainer (been working on it for ~3 years). Might as well post this before it becomes old news.

Here's it asking for a rootfs on a RPi Zero, using lk as a preboot env.
It's slower than hell, and the HDMI cable itself is spotty

Oh and I also have it booting to a shell on a iPad 7,1

As well as QEMU's `virt` board, I have yet to figure out Apple-specific instructions for M1, but I have ideas. I was last working on fixing OpenGL for virtio-gpu on arm64

I hope Hackintosh can continue in the form of generic arm64/arm32 boards, and I hope my research can help.

I'll be working on a Pixel once I get my hands on it (hurry up, USPS)

CPU: BCM2835
GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV
RAM: 512MiB LPDDR2
Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Raspberry Pi Zero (v1.2)
Audio Codec: N/A
Ethernet Card: N/A
Wifi/BT Card: N/A
Touchpad and touch display devices: N/A
BIOS revision: N/A

u/Successful-Reason-96 — 3 days ago
▲ 56 r/DarwinOS+2 crossposts

PureDarwin is alive

https://preview.redd.it/p8rzf4pvfthh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa154d2e3313ce113694879ebd81287203946bf2

A lot of people seem to think PureDarwin has stalled.

It hasn't. Development just moved to the `next` branch while we work towards something actually releasable.

github.com/PureDarwin/PureDrawin//next

You can find old branches at PureDarwin-archive

For reference, both Ferdinand Klinzer (hideout) and Tyson Key (vmlemon) are aware and in the loop, I constantly consult them on feedback.

Current disk images can be found in the Discord server (unsure if I am allowed to post outside links besides known sources)

It's still not reliable enough to call a release, but I actively work on it pretty much every day.

Since then we've gained:

  • USB (Input and MSD, XHCI and EHCI
  • AHCI (shared from ravynOS, with some changes being upstreamed)
  • virtio-gpu
  • virtio-net
  • Intel Gen9 framebuffer drivers (my own implementation, based on managarm's `lil`)
  • Real hardware booting (Intel only, AMD is spotty)
  • Mesa (OpenGL, Vulkan, llvmpipe)
  • Wayland
  • X11

Oh and of course, we have DOOM. This was just the more polished demo

Development updates is constantly posted to the Discord channel.

TL;DR PureDarwin isn't dead. It's just been spending a lot of time in the "doing the unglamorous infrastructure work before calling it a release" phase.

Read some more information from another post in the r/FreeBSD subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vgj63g/puredarwin_contains_freebsd_code_now_can_run_xfce

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u/Successful-Reason-96 — 10 days ago