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jamesy0ung • today at 12:40 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I noticed Golden Gate still ships with an x86_64 kernel (not kernelcache), I wonder if this is any useful

james@Jamess-MacBook-Pro ~ % sw_vers ProductName: macOS ProductVersion: 27.2.1 BuildVersion: 26B131 james@Jamess-MacBook-Pro ~ % file /System/Library/Kernels/kernel /System/Library/Kernels/kernel: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 james@Jamess-MacBook-Pro ~ % strings /System/Library/Kernels/kernel | grep "Darwin" @(#)VERSION: Darwin Kernel Version 27.2.0: Wed Oct 14 23:40:09 PDT 2026; root:xnu-13432.41.4~25/RELEASE_X86_64 Darwin Kernel Version 27.2.0: Wed Oct 14 23:40:09 PDT 2026; root:xnu-13432.41.4~25/RELEASE_X86_64 Darwin

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ndiddy • today at 1:52 AM

Reminds me of how some of the dev versions of Snow Leopard still boot on PowerPC.

vintagedave • today at 1:13 AM

This is fascinating. If x64 isn’t supported in Golden Gate why is this present?

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