Subject: Re: COMPAT_DARWIN status
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/02/2003 19:36:03
In article <1g3soti.1lvhltr1jgqomlM%manu@netbsd.org>,
Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org> wrote:
>Hi everybody
>
>COMPAT_DARWIN is now able to run MacOS X's XDarwin (this is, the X
>Window server for Darwin). The server is fully functionnal: display,
>keyboard and mouse work.

Congratulations!

>Running Darwin has no interest in itself, but having it working ensures
>that our IOKit (1) emulation is good enough to be used . The real target
>now is MacOS X's WindowServer. WindowServer is like XDarwin for the
>quartz displaying system, which is used natively by MacOS X
>applications.

How much more work do you thing it will be for windowserver?

christos