Developer ports iOS core to To Nokia N900, Opens Door To iOS Running On Non-Apple Hardware

Programming designer Winocm has figured out how to port the core elements of Apple’s iOS operating system to non-Apple devices. The code name of the core is the “XNU Kernel” and this is the thing that Apple improved over a decade prior to make the establishment of Os X (and later, ios). As might be seen in the picture above from Steven Troughton-Smith, the system is effectively running on a Nokia N900 smartphone.

 The port does not has any of iOS’s or OS X’s graphical interface elements and cannot run as a functional OS. Here is some additional hardware that can run the system:

• ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARMPBA8_ALT)
•  ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8 (ARMPBA8) 
• Texas Instruments OMAP3530 (BeagleBoard/BeagleBoard xM) (OMAP3530)
•  Texas Instruments OMAP3430 (Nokia N900) (OMAP3430_RX51) 
• Texas Instruments AM335x (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black) (OMAP335X)

Source is available on GitHub.

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