oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
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HackiOS boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel (xnu-8796.121.2, the kernel of iOS 16.5) on Android phone hardware and runs the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space on top of it: launchd → backboardd → SpringBoard → apps. Our own EFI loader, our own replacements for Apple's closed drivers, a UEFI port, and a Linux Wi-Fi driver on a compatibility layer make that possible. It runs in two places: the whole system lives in RAM, and after a reboot the phone is back in Android; This repository is half of the project: Photographed on the phone, the Adreno GPU drawing (gpu=1). More in Screenshots. It is a research bench, not a ROM: a session lasts a given number of seconds, then the kernel returns to the loader and hands over its log. prebuilt/ holds the kernel, loader and our programs built from these repositories, so all you need is the system image, which…
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- HackiOS — XNU kernel
- What works
- Quick start: QEMU, no kernel build
- On the phone (POCO X5 Pro 5G)
- Prebuilt boot image
- Building from source
- Porting to another device
- How it works
- Layout
- Debugging
- Screenshots
- Licenses
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- oosexgang
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- 2026-10-22T06:20:11.000Z
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