Beta 2 of Voodoo XNU 9.5 Kernel now available

R0GUE · #1 10-14-2008, 09:00 AM

Development at Voodoo Labs keeps on progressing with the team releasing Beta 2 of the Voodoo XNU 9.5 Kernel.

NOTE: Pentium 4/D users: If you experienced instant reboot with Beta 2, please download Beta 2c.

We decided to delay this beta by a few days. The release date has also been postponed and is no longer fixed at oct 15. This is because we are making heavy progress with the opcode patcher as well as fixing bugs. Chun-nan has done quite a bit of testing and we are close to booting retail on AMD, but this still needs one last major change in the kernel.

So the second beta has been released without a fully-functional AMD patcher, like previous beta. There have been many other fixes in this beta too, including an experimental patch which should fix AMD timing/mouse issues. Pentium 4 model 2 users should no longer need to use busratio flag. A lot of AMD users who reported audio issues (specially Phenom) should no longer experience those problems.

Once the cpuid patcher is functional a 3rd and final beta might be released. It is always a priority to release a stable and functional kernel rather than releasing early.

Note that this does not affect sse3->sse2 patching for P4 or Pentium M user. This part of the patcher is stable now.

Head on over to the Downloads section and grab the archive. More information can be found here. Please ensure that you leave feedback to allow the XNU team to keep improving the kernel.

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