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I realized last week that I could build one of Apple's driver stacks at home. I wanted this so I could turn on its logging as well as to enable source code debugging.
Each day I updated my clients on my progress, however by today I was quite dismayed that I still couldn't get it to build. This because Apple has a private SDK called macosx.internal. The drivers from Apple's Open Source site once built out of the box, thereby enabling OpenDarwin, but now they don't.
I at first had no clue what was in machos.internal - damn autocorrect! - but eventually figured out that it needed some headers from the xnu kernel.
I figured I should try building the kernel first, but again it depends on macosx.internal. All I really needed was the headers, so I tried:
$ make installhdrs
... which did install lots of headers, but not the ones I needed. The only headers it installs are already in Kernel.framework. I needed some of the private headers. As I figured them out I added them to my own private Kernel.framework.
When I started work again today I mailed my clients with "Working at home to continue building the IOGraphicsFamily. I am dismayed that this is taking so long."
Dismayed because the client wants to send my driver to OEMs on the first.
Eric wrote back, "Do you think this will help?"
"Yes. It should enable debugging of that showstopper bug."
"The one Lucas fixed last week?"
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:01AM
I was unconscious for three days.
For a couple days after I woke up, while I could correctly visualize the spelling of my own name when I thought about it, I was unable to spell it correctly when I tried to write it on paper with a pencil.
The first thing I did once I could spell correctly again was to write a letter to the Portland ACLU in which I asked them to represent me in a civil rights complaint. Six months passed, then I received a preprinted form letter from them telling me they would not take my case, and that they focus their efforts on constitutional issues.
I don't know what it is about getting damn near lobotomized by our protect and serve OHSU's finest that's not a constitutional question.
They did that to me after I pissed on the floor of a concrete holding cell that had no toilet. The absence of a toilet all by itself is unconstitutional.