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How difficult would it be to get the userland working on top of this? Is it even possible, given the hardware differences?


No, it's probably not possible, as iOS is coded to run on specific Apple manufactured hardware...

Even if it were possible, it would take a hellish amount of time to get working, I'm sure.


Technically, userspace already works, as in you can use a standard Darwin/BSD system root and that'll work fine.

For an iOS GUI userspace.. you'd need to implement some more kernel drivers.




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