InfiniteMac OSx86 - 10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha

10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha

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Standard fixes are included, plus a few extra stuff:

* Built-in kernel blacklister automatically blacklists bad kexts from loading. Therefore you don't need to use a disabler to disable it manually
* bigger dmesg Which translates to a larger log file so that you can troubleshoot easily
* uuid patching/fix Eliminates the need of UUID kext or specifying manually
* fsb detection
* cpu cache detection
* reboot fix- Eliminates the need of OpenHaltRestart and fixes shutdown/reboot issue
* sse3emu -SSE3 emulator for SSE2 processors . Bear in mind that most of the applications in Snow Leopard run fine with this emulator.
* For people wanting to use XCode apps, I decided to add all the CHUD kexts to the kext blacklist. This means no more kp hell when installing and dealing with the development tools. If anyone thinks this is something that shouldn't be added, let me know.

Added stuff:

* Some of AnVs patches from the 10.6.2 diff
* BlackKnight's fsb fix
* mucha's lapic fix (common issues with new HP laptops, meklort plans on including a fix for this in Chameleon)
Features in this specific package:

* If you have SleepEnabler installed, your SleepEnabler kext will get updated. If you don't use it, don't worry about it - it won't get installed.
* All of the CPUIDs in the new versions of programs from the 10.6.4 update will get patched. this means you don't need to deal with the hell regarding iTunes, etc.

(The actual patcher program also gets installed (/usr/local/bin/patcher, you can run from anyware via Terminal) as well as the CPUID text file (/Library/CPUIDs/*) Though this is only important to people who love control and want to be able to run it themselves :-P - this is all automated in the installer regardless. Unfortunately we still havent gotten on the fly patching working, so this is a reasonable fix for it for now.)

I do make cpuid files for updates and keep them online http://nawcom.com/osx86/cpuids/ for AMD people to use regarding updates as well as a nice frontend to Maxxuss' patcher app, drag and drop a cpuid.txt file onto the app to launch it - just like Taruga's HDA Patcher.

Good luck to all. Source diffs are always available. -> http://nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.6/Kernels...l-1504.7.4.diff

Remember the voodoo xnu project?

I believe that we can get many developers together once again and make this a reality once more. Sadly many of the original devs are gone, yet there are many who are willing to improve this code a ton. Many people can create their own fixes and improvements, but there's no way we have a kernel like there was in 10.5 without us coming together as a group.

I have messaged AnV and BlackKnight as well as a few others who I know can help contribute to this and revive the xnu project for AMD and legacy Intel (perhaps we will revive the voodoo name) and I am looking for anyone who can contribute code-wise who can work together to make this a reality once again.

Probably our 2 main goals as of now is:
* sysenter emulation to make 64 bit userspace work with 32 bit apps
* correctly port on the fly cpuid patching, so no manual cpuid patching is needed again

For anyone who can help code-wise, join #xnu-chat on irc.voodooprojects.org. Once we get this together we can create a google code project and make this easily available. My personal plan is, if this succeeds this won't be the final version of the 10.6.4 kernel at all.

As I said, we can get this project in an organized state once again, and hopefully within the next month it can happen.

External link: http://nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.6/Kernels...-10.4.0.pkg.zip
Another External link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/dhxx1ytrnoz/...-10.4.0.pkg.zip

Many thanks to qoopz, AnV, BlackKnight, mucha, and everyone in the original voodoo-xnu team - mercurysquad, Galaxy, kaitek, Turbo. I'm probably missing some names. Yell at me if I am.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...&#entry1492469

Wow... just a few hours after Apple has released the src... :)