On Mar 9, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > There are some/a few/several people working at Apple that play or used to > play a large role in FreeBSD. So they were basically paying these people's > salaries for their day job which allowed them to be active in FreeBSD. Also, > there is some code put-back I believe.
Of particular note was the contributions of patches to fix NFS race conditions. Plus tools to stress and duplicate those conditions. > Most of what Apple used from FreeBSD was the userland and the kernel > interface so that the Darwin kernel could be used with FreeBSD userland > utilities that affect the kernel etc. Mac OS X uses a totally different > underlying kernel and architecture but made a FreeBSD like kernel interface > in order to be able to use certain sets of FreeBSD stuff. Believe a number of FreeBSD drivers made it into MacOS X. Don't know of any Apple product which used Intel Etherexpress Pro chipsets but I popped a PCI card in a Mac one day and it magically worked as if it had always been there. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
