Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
4,715 reads · 2011-12-12
Note Lion – Catalina AMD OSx86

Some new toys

I bought myself a MacBookPro8,2 (MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011). It runs Lion fine. I tested my kernel on it and it works (so it's not the patches that are wrong). Apparently there is something missing for getting it to run on AMD (something…

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@andyvand Published 2011-12-12
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Lion to Catalina (10.7–10.15)
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4,715 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2011-12-12
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@andyvand@hans88

I bought myself a MacBookPro8,2 (MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011).
It runs Lion fine.
I tested my kernel on it and it works (so it's not the patches that are wrong).
Apparently there is something missing for getting it to run on AMD (something they changed).
Today I'm also going to buy myself an iPhone 4S (always wanted one of those).
As for AMD, I'm going to continuing trying to fix it (not sure if I'll succeed though). :-|

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Field Note #1 @hans88 2011-12-12

May be they've kind of blacklisted AMD CPU resources adress?! Is that possible?

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