Snow Leopard XNU Kernel
The sources were released, what's the story on a new kernel? Is anyone working on one? opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/ Mac OS X 10.6 Source xnu-1456.1.26 (www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/) APSL…
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- @spalek83 Published 2009-11-09
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The sources were released, what's the story on a new kernel? Is anyone working on one?
opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/
Mac OS X 10.6 Source xnu-1456.1.26 (www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/) APSL (www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/) BSD (www.opensource.apple.com/license/bsd/)
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yet it isn't complete, right (ssse3 emulation, cpuid patching, tsc fix?
qoopz is what i'm using right now
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SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz →
that is based on xnu-1456.1.26
@spalek83sse emulation
It has an emualtionlayer for SSE2 support. Something like that for SSE CPUs was never there and will more than likely never be, as the complication is not worth the work if you look at todays prices for Hardware.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @spalek83 | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-11-09 |
| @aryajuanda | Contributor | 1 | 2009-11-09 |
| @Imkantus | Contributor | 1 | 2009-11-09 |