Apple intern thesis bears on porting Darwin to ARMv5 chips
07/02/2012 |
Two years ago, Tristan Schaap joined Apple's Platform Technologies Group as an intern. During his 12-week stint with the Core OS division, he worked on a project to get a piece of Mac OS X running on an ARM processor, says a report by iMore. Most people were not aware of this project until recently, when the Netherland's Delft University of Technology made Schaap's thesis available to the public.
Schaap's project was very specific - he worked with Darwin and ported it to a Marvell ARMv5te...
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