[M3devel] ARM_DARWIN?

[Tony Hosking]

I am interested, though I don't have any immediate need.

On Feb 19, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Darko wrote:

> I'm interested in targeting Darwin on the ARM processor, to allow  
> software development for Apple touchscreen hardware such as the  
> iPhone and the iPod touch. Is anyone else interested in this? I  
> know there has been some work by others  (see posts here by Iztok  
> Kobal) on targeting processors in the ARM family.
>
> The hardware mentioned definitely runs Darwin, or something very  
> much like it. Apparently the CPU is an ARM 11 on the iPhone.
>
> Apple is due to release an SDK shortly that will almost certainly  
> mean there will be an ARM target in the standard (XCode) toolchain  
> so it should be a matter of adapting Apple's back end as  
> distributed. It would have to be a cross compiler since being  
> hosted on the target hardware isn't very practical.
>
> I'd be very interested to hear from anyone with an interest in this  
> platform.
>
> Regards,
> Darko.