{"id":231349,"date":"2017-10-02T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231349"},"modified":"2017-10-02T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:26:18","slug":"apple-releases-kernel-source-code-for-mobile-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/231349-apple-releases-kernel-source-code-for-mobile-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases kernel source code for mobile chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released\u00a0ARM-friendly <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/apple\/darwin-xnu\/tree\/master\/bsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>source code<\/strong><\/a> for the XNU kernels used in iOS and macOS.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/01\/apple-releases-arm-kernel-source-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Apple has regularly released the kernel source code for Macs. For iOS, however, code optimised for ARM-based chips &#8211; found in many phones and tablets &#8211; was not provided by Apple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You now have code that would theoretically run on an iPhone or iPad,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>It added that it is only the kernel, however, which\u00a0doesn&#8217;t cover the interface, developer frameworks, or apps of the software.<\/p>\n<p>ARM-based Mac code is also available, but Engadget noted that\u00a0Apple has a history of writing code for other architectures &#8220;just in case&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You certainly aren&#8217;t about to install macOS on your ARM-based Chromebook,&#8221; it stated.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/231257-the-war-on-kodi.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The war on Kodi<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released\u00a0ARM-friendly source code for the XNU kernels used in iOS and macOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":214096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,691],"class_list":["post-231349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231357,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231349\/revisions\/231357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}