Beta 2 of Voodoo XNU 9.5 Kernel now available
 

http://www.infinitemac.com/images/news/xnu_voodoo.pngDevelopment 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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Thnx for the news :)

Nice logo btw :D

wow, great. i`ll give it a try today, hope it works. And just to cheks - should this kernel eliminate the mouse bug ?

Yeah, Taisto, I think it should be fixed. Depends on your CPU though. There is still some drift between the cores but that is coming down as well from what I understand from mercurysquad.

Also make note that by now, almost everyone should be able to boot without the busratio bootflag. AWESOME!

I installed the beta2c today and it seems to be a lot faster, especcially booting and the starting of my browser. Now I hope that it fixes the problems the sometimes occuring iTunes crashes and the audio drop-outs. Sadly I still can't use Quicktime 7.5.5, it's still too slow.

EDIT: iTunes still crashes when using a virtualizer:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000f184ad03
Crashed Thread: 17

This is impressive. :D The mouse timing bug was my biggest complaint with Leo on my AMD x2 Opteron, course now I have an Intel rig so it isn't an issue. Course when I put together a secondary rig with my old AMD parts this will make it a helluva lot easier to install Leo :D Good work!

I am extremely impressed with this kernel. My machine has been up and stressed for more than 5 days without a single problem. TSC drift has completely disappeared from my machine even after sleep/resume. Very happy indeed :)

boot0: error after Time Maschine restore
 

Hi there,

i had a very good working hackintosh based on iDeneb v1.3 (10.5.5).
I used xnu-dev kernel 2c-beta as the default kernel, as it was working fine and i am running a vmware.
Then i decided to change NVKush against EFI-Strings and messed something up and the system did not boot anymore.
So I decided to make a restore from Time Maschine. The restore runs well, but as I was trying to boot i got the boot0: error.
After searching the Forum i was trying to boot my OSX from the IDeneb-DVD using "rd=disk0s2 -v" to repair the bootloader.
The System starts booting but after a while I see "CPU halted" and the hackintosh is switched off :-(

Any help out there ?

thanxx

steffx