Kernel

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This is the Darwin kernel. Pre 2.0, it was vulnerable to the Ramdisk Hack and may still be, but iBoot doesn't allow boot-args to be passed anymore. It is mapped to memory at 0xC0000000. On startup, the kernelcache is decompressed and run.