What works today. This page changes often. The Roadmap covers intent, and
this page covers facts.
Legend: yes works, partial works with limits or known bugs, no not there
yet, - does not apply to this target.
x86_64 arm64 virt Pi Zero
Kernel builds yes yes yes Boots to a shell yes yes not yet, reaches dyld ext4 root yes yes yes launchd and XPC yes yes not yet Runs on real hardware yes - partial
On real arm64 hardware, the Jetson TX1, the Orange Pi Zero 3, the Orange Pi Zero 4 and
other boards are in bringup. See Targets . The Raspberry Pi 3 and the iPad 6
(T8010) booted on the 20.5-era tree only.
Status
UEFI, 64-bit yes, through xnu-loader UEFI, 32-bit (IA32 firmware) partial, reaches the root mount in QEMU. The GPU images carry BOOTIA32.EFI next to BOOTX64.EFI Legacy BIOS yes, with the -legacy images Secure Boot yes, with the -sb images. They boot through a Microsoft-signed shim and a loader signed with the PureDarwin key, which you enroll once Multiboot2 and Linux boot protocol yes, the loader also boots from GRUB and from QEMU’s -kernel
Status
ext4 yes, with journalling. Project code, and historically the source of subtle bugs HFS+ yes. image-hfs uses it for bisection, and so macOS users can mount the image APFS yes, image-apfs-minimal boots with an APFS root msdosfs yes
Status
DHCP, DNS, TCP clients yes, end to end through configd and IPConfiguration sshd yes virtio-net yes Intel e1000 family (FreeBSD em) yes, also on arm64 virt Intel I225 and I226 (FreeBSD igc) builds, not yet tested on hardware Realtek RTL8111/8168 yes Realtek RTL8125 and RTL8126 (FreeBSD rge) builds, not yet tested on hardware Wi-Fi, Realtek RTL8852B and RTL8852C (FreeBSD rtw89) yes Wi-Fi, Realtek RTL8192EU USB (FreeBSD rtwn) yes, joins WPA2 networks with DHCP Wi-Fi, Ralink RT3572 USB yes with the OpenBSD run driver. The FreeBSD run driver attaches and scans, joining is in progress LAN78xx (Pi 3, 20.5-era tree) partial
The FreeBSD drivers run on fbsdkpi, a FreeBSD compatibility layer built on Haiku’s.
Wi-Fi is managed with wifiutil and from the menu bar.
Status
Argon desktop yes. The neuswc Wayland compositor with the menu bar, Dock, Files, Terminal, Settings and other built-in apps AMD GPUs (amdgpu through drm-kmod) yes on the RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 XTX, with radeonsi OpenGL Intel GPUs (i915 through drm-kmod) partial. Gen9 and Gemini Lake work, newer generations vary NVIDIA GPUs (nouveau through drm-kmod) yes on the Quadro 410, Quadro K620, GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 7900 GS, with OpenGL Firmware framebuffer yes, the fallback on every machine virgl and Venus in VMs yes Mesa llvmpipe yes Multiple displays partial, extended desktop in VMs, real GPUs in progress Xorg yes GTK3 yes WebKitGTK yes
Status
zsh, toybox, core userland yes Wine, GUI applications yes In-guest clang, cmake, ninja, meson yes In-guest rustc yes Nix inside PureDarwin partial, a port builds derivations in the guest Audio (Intel HDA) yes Input (PS/2, USB) yes
Status
CoreFoundation yes, a real cross-built CF objc4 and libobjc yes libc++, libc++abi, libunwind yes, LLVM 21 Foundation partial AppKit partial, the built-in apps are AppKit apps Unmodified macOS apps partial, a select few run, including Firefox Security yes, apart from trustd SystemConfiguration yes, configd runs and drives DHCP DiskArbitration yes IOKit yes, the real IOKit.framework built from IOKitUser CoreGraphics, Onyx2D, CoreText partial Swift no
Per-machine detail, including which Intel and AMD platforms have been tried, is in
Running on Real Hardware .
Some Intel laptops from the Kaby Lake generation onward freeze when the kernel starts
the second CPU. Booting with cpus=1 works around it. This is being investigated.
The boot kernel collection is close to the 64 MiB limit the loader allows. New drivers
that are not needed to mount root go into the auxiliary kernel collection.
corecrypto and CommonCrypto are GPL, and they are in the default build. See the
Roadmap .Security is missing trustd, so certificate trust evaluation through the framework is
not available. TLS in ported software goes through GnuTLS and works.
macOS hosts cannot build images, kernel collections or runners.