SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz

Did you try -legacy?

I got the same problem i think, but i didn't solve it yet.

I did however made a new partition with a fresh install. Using qoopz kernel + all other kext i had before and it booted. So it's probably related to some settings i have on the other partition...

:)

Great! Someone is trying hard for all of us! I'm using this kernel right now and it is working as fine as it should be (some issues with 64 bit "mode"/apps, no cpuid patch for now e.t.c - but all of them are known and described inside kernel's readme).
So, I'm writting this post in order to thank qoopz for his work/time/effort!

This is my hardware list:
Motherboard: Supermicro H8DAE-2 with nVidia MCP55 Pro chipset which supports up to two Six-Core AMD Opteron 2000/8000 processors
Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Aplus Products | Motherboards | H8DAE-2 ↗
Processor: 2x Opteron 2350 (8 cores total -2GHz each)
Ram: 4x2 GB Samsung DDR2 667 Registered ECC Unbuffered (8 Gb total)
Graphics Card: Nvidia 9400 GT
I also have two SATA hard disks, 120 GB and 640GB , a Sony IDE DVD reader and an Optiarc DVD Recorder.

Great! It is working fine for me too!
my hardware list:
Motherboard: Yeston An68 with nVidia MCP68 chipset
Processor:AMD Athlon 5200+
Ram:2G Kingmax DDR2 800
Graphics card: nVidia 9600GT
Hard disk:320G AHCI
Audio:ALC888

千呼万唤始出来！

Working fine here so far. I've tried to boot with -force64 but it didn't worked, I'll check my chameleon settings and try again.

EDIT: I cannot restart or turn off properly so I'm back using OpenHaltRestart. Other than that it's all right.

Funny. This kernel looks like a minor improvement of the test7 kernel that had been floating around for AMD cpus for a while now ... ( ie. spec'ed to block certain kexts ... )

Nothing spectacular like the Voodoo kernels were on leopard ...

My system:
AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz 3200+
MSI K8N Neo4-FI/Paltinum
nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra, AMD Hammer
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (256 MB)

Booting with -force64 indeed makes system work in 64 bits. Activity Monitor shows all programs working in 64 bits. 32 bits VLC player doesn't work, 64 bits works. Quicktime X in 64 bits doesn't work, shows endless "loading movie". Forcing programs to work in 32 bits mode through "Get info" doesn't work. Programs crash. So it seems like every program must be in 64 bits mode, or 32 bits. it is conrtary to the screen shot of Activity Monitor that I've seen where it was obvious that some programs run in 32 bits and some in 64 bits.

Kext Utility doesn't work in 64 bits mode.

And I still need OpenHaltRestart kext.

@mindlessmissyFunny. This kernel looks like a minor improvement of the test7 kernel that had been floating around for AMD cpus for a while now ... ( ie. spec'ed to block certain kexts ... ) Nothing spectacular like the Voodoo kernels were on leopard ...

My experiance is even worse. With modbin kernel I got KP during the boot process, but with this kernel my boot process stops at the begining - with black screen...

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AMD Athlon II 550 X2
8 Gb RAM
Gigabyte 790fx UDP4
Ati Radeon HD3850

it have some issue wit 64 bit mode in AMD.. i have test this kernel for few day... its made for modified xnu kernel not based on test 7...
hope it will have some improvement soon...

@xXrkidXxdoes this mean i can use 64 bit on my Intel P4?

yes -force64

Noob dreaming big. Will this solve dual core issues "cpus=1" on my intel T6500? And do I need to remove/rename the kexts that are no longer needed before trying?

The diffs can be obtained directly from me or qoopz from IRC. Plus I just want to add a couple of things

1. the 64-bit is flaky for AMD users - just dont try it. It will not boot or may not boot at all. If you are using 64-bit AMD64 with SSE2 (no SSE3) , its even worst as 64-bit heavily depends upon SSSE3 and SSE3. Since SSE2 users would have to emulate SSE3 , plus no SSSE3 emulation for native SSE3 users , its pretty much gone. You can't get QuickTime X to use 64-bit because of SSSE3. It will just bounce or may just say loading movie which it will not do.

2. Kernel panic - try to disable ata kext and troubleshoot it yourself. there are ways on how do it. Boot with verbose

3. cpus=1 - Thats related to your dsdt. You may need it to be manually patched up or do try TSCSync from Voodo. This is related to your BIOS. I've taken a look at most of HPs DSDT.dsl and they didn't even include anything for cpu1. So good luck with that , some can be patched , the rest well - you're on your own

@prasys3. cpus=1 - Thats related to your dsdt. You may need it to be manually patched up or do try TSCSync from Voodo. This is related to your BIOS. I've taken a look at most of HPs DSDT.dsl and they didn't even include anything for cpu1. So good luck with that , some can be patched , the rest well - you're on your own

Thank u for quick reply.

Then are the any benefit/inprovements for my system with this kernel? Everything in my activity monitor so far shows 64bit except couple.

I don't know whats going on there, I don't come any further.
Any ideas? (AMD SSE2, Installed from Leopard, copied kernel and some kexts)

Do you have both dsmos.kext and fakesmc.kext in Extra or /S/L/E remove dsmos.kext if you do and make sure your fakesmc.kext is for snow leopard

fakesmc.kext is from netkas (V2), no dsmos. All I can get is singleusermode.

ok wth... I can't make a partition from my Mac OS X Install dvd(iPC 10.5.6 PPF5)henever I try it keeps saying that I will erase Mac HD, but I still have stuff on there I want to keep... any ideas? this is just pre snow right now...

Great news!

We will try it and report bugs, then wait for 10.0.1

Ouch!

does NOT include auto cpuid/sysenter patcher for amd.

So there is no most important thing we need for AMD. Too bad.

Just tested this:

- In 32-bit mode kernel works just like test7 by modbin for me.
- In 64-bit mode it runs but almost all programs just gives "quit unexpectedly" error.

Without on-the-fly opcode patching SL is unusable on AMD.

We need nothing but true Voodoo-based kernel for Snow Leopard.

crap.,.. it works like test 7 and test432? urg.. KP's all around.. :|

Boots Pentium Dothan Mobile SSE2

1. Installed Snow Retail onto Seperate Partition from within Retail Leopard.

2. Qoopz Kernel + FakeSMC (Ver.2) + LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA.kext (Nothing Else!)

3. Reboot. + -f -v

4. Input Info setup > Snow Leopard Desktop!

VGN-A397XP
Pentium M 2GHz Dothan SSE2
2GB Ram
ATIX600 PCIe 128MB (Need Kext for This) 1600x1200Rez (Native 1920x1200)
ICH-6 Mobo

Problems.

1. Clock does not Display at all in Digital mode.
2. Buttons seem distorted on left hand side.
3. Safari opens but then permanently unresponsive.
4. -force64 or -x64 Grey apple screen no load icon hdd silent.
5. GUI looks disformed and minor buggy.

Good Start. Thankyou for providing the Kernel

lol that might be why = )

im glad i can boot into snow tho. with less modification of a retail leopard too. 2 kext nice!

shame about the gui distorting and digital clock is that kernel specific?

Thanks for the new kernel.

I have an old dell sc-420 server with a p4 processor and the new kernel did the trick. Needed a custom dsdt but all is well and used an old AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext from Leopard 10.5.8.

After the install I upgraded to snow leopard 10.6.1 and rebooted. System never missed a beat. Nice.

Fantastic work!

Works fine for me on my Pentium D system, even with -force64.

Now I can finally run with > 4Gb memory so I am very happy. With the modbin kernel it would KP unless I had maxmem=4096

@GothGargoyleWorks fine for me on my Pentium D system, even with -force64.

Spoke to soon, can't watch anything in Quicktime if I have -force64. Must be the issue I saw mentioned with Pentium D and x264. Anyone know if this will be solved eventually?

I've mentioned

To run QuickTime X , right click , get info and select run in 32-bit. You'll need SSSE3 to run QuickTime X on 64-bit and some applications wouldn't just work right on 64-bit cause they are looking for SSSE3 instructions. Its not being emulated at all. An emulator is needed

still waiting 64 bit mode kernel for AMD user with built in cpuid ^_^

always get KP with this kernel when uTorrent tries to hash big (~2.6 gig) file... problem in IOBufferMemoryDescriptor - out of 32bits... someone using int instead of unsigned long int?

sounds like an appleforceata kext that doesnt have the 64bit fix. Find a kext that allows use of 4GB+ of ram.

Is this kernel 10.0.0 or 10.2.0

I’ve install this on a sse2 machine, but still get the beachball in xcode, apple remote desktop, safari, high cpu usage, missing clock..

What does sleepenabler.kext do, I didn’t install that.

Afair this kernel is 10.0.0, but all kernel versions cause the same problems on SSE2 machines.