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Member #35,259 · 2010-10-15 → 2012-12-13
#41 by Dispatches #820 by Author Reads #52 by Thread Reach Member #35,259 AMD OSx86 Voodoo / XNU Kernel DSDT

@wastez

InfiniteMac community contributor with 182 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (13,917 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 2,523,316 historical readers.

Dispatches 182 Ranked #41 of 6,691
Author Reads 13,917 Ranked #820 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 2,523,316 Ranked #52 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 4,639 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #35,259 Joined 2010-10-13
Active Window 2010–2012 2010-10-15 → 2012-12-13
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Motherboard: MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital
Chipset: AMD 690G + SB600
CPU: AMD Phenom II 945 4x 3.0GHz
RAM: 8 GB DDR2 800 MHz
Graphics: MSI ATI Radeon 5770 OC- Edition
Sound: ALC 888 + GR Session I/O + HDMI from Graphics
Storage: SSD Corsair Force 3 120GB + 4x Samsung F3 1TB
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Mac OS-X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
AnV 10.8.0 Legacy Kernel V2 - 64 Bit Mode
cparm module Bootloader - AMD Version


Everything injected via dsdt!!!
Archive Standing
#41 of 6,691 by Dispatches (182 notes) · #820 of 3,454 by Author Readership (13,917 reads across 3 dossiers) · #52 by Thread Reach (2,523,316 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #35,259 · Joined 2010-10-13
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (50) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (13) · DSDT (13) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (10) · ALC889a / Audio (5) · ATI Radeon (5)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

10.X Core
147 (81%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @wastez (3)

13,917 cumulative reads on threads started by @wastez

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Problems with dsdt on AMD- System
I´ve a MSI K9AG NEO2 Digital with an SB600 chipset. I´ve problems with the code from usb ohci. ehci i fixed but ohci drives me crazy. I´ve added different codes from the internet but no one works! Can anyone help me? Would be really cool…
10.X Core6,190 reads
2010-12-25 · 9 notes
Final Cut and AMD
I want to use final cut on my amd computer. Installation & starting was no problem but during work appears a EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) error. Does anybody knows this problem? Btw. is there a solution for it? Does final cut need SSSE3…
10.X Core4,136 reads
2011-11-08 · 2 notes
Need IOATAFamily for SB600
I saw yesterday that the ioatafamily.kext which i use for my sb600 chipset is only 32bit but i´ve no ioatafamily.kext which works. Does anybody have this kext for use with a sb600 chipset? Would be really great if someone can help me…
10.X Core3,591 reads
2011-02-17 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @wastez contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Lion with AMD
“Thanks for replying: I have this: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor × 6 This CPU doesn´t support SSSE3, so there is no chance to run it in 64 bit kernelmode in the moment.”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thanks, but not really the answer im looking for. I'd rather just go out and buy an intel mobo + cpu than mess around like this. Havent a few people got Lion to run in 64bit mode? It´s only possible if your CPU does support SSSE3. (Bulldoze…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hi. I registered on this forum just to reply on this topic. I've got Lion 10.7.2 running on AMD. 32-bit only though... I installed it to another partition from my Snow Leopard, replaced the kernel, added kexts and replaced the Finder.app wi…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@ gils If nobody will write a SSSE3 Emulator we will get stuck at this point and there will no way to run it in 64 bit kernelmode ever. My mind is that nobody will do this, cause there are alternatives which are working. @ xmaniak100 I woul…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“….. Also, ich habe mir die beiden Patch-Dateien von Dimitrik und R:A:W:X86 intensiver miteinander verglichen und festgestellt, dass sie zwar den AMD Prozessor mit aufführen aber nicht explizit den K10, kannst du mir zustimmen GILS ?. Mir is…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-02
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hi..i followed these guides http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=278181&st=0 hack-my mac.fr/index.php/forum/24-problemes-dinstallation-pc-amd/19491-iatkos-l2-sur-pc-amd#24625 i had a working sl 10.6.8 with chameleon bootload…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-26
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You try download boot from clover and run LION ) Should work ! ) Clover does not work on my system, don´t know why…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“My system stucks like the System of gedna. One line before DSMOS will be displayed.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thanks for your hard work, it really great that somebody got it working. It would be absolutely great if the 64 bit Userland could be implemented.”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-30
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Would bulldozer work with a similar patch? seeing as it has all the same instruction sets implemented as the intel chips. It would be really interesting if andy´s lion kernel will work with bulldozer or bobcat. If it´s working we can say fo…”
Lion – Catalina2012-01-30
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I allready compiled it but it´s not working in the moment. The problem is that the source have changed really much since snow leopard and AnV has to find out the problem.”
Lion – Catalina2011-09-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“here is the link: osx 86.co/f57/amd-and-legacy-t7263/ But i also used the search to find it. Just entered this keywords: amd patch”
Lion – Catalina2011-09-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“What i know is one of the problems that the kernel source is incomplite. I´m not really sure but i think anv also takes the diff from nawcom. (correct me if i´m wrong) Looks like it will take a while till we get a legacy_kernel which works.”
Lion – Catalina2011-07-26
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Can you tell me how you want to run 10.7 with a amd? Because there is no kernel which allow to run a amd with lion!”
Lion – Catalina2011-04-27
1,075,710 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“I got my lion 10.4 up on the mad phenom ,now getting a circle with a cross on all 64 bit application s,on licking it says "You can't open the application AutoCAD 2013 because it is not supported on this type of mac" Also flash movie are cra…”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-17
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“one thing I do not understand the devid is the same for 2.7.2 and VoodooHDA ALC 892 ? how is it that VoodooHDA malfunctioning but it works ? HDAE ALC 892 : IOClass HDAEnabler IOPCIClassMatch 0x04030000&0xffff0000 IOProbeScore 600 IOProvider…”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-11
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“in fact, I'd make it work, it must be a story devid, it would be interesting to develop the kext. works how your ALC 888 ? with VoodooHDA ? The problem is not the device id (it´s correct), the problem also appear if you inject it with dsdt …”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-10
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“No, HDEnabler does not work, I tried the patched DSDT patch with the ALC 892 without result, I just info for the presence of audio in Audio (integrated) So i would delete the kext if it is not working.”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-09
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@ Gils I saw you took the HDA-Enabler on your System, is it working? The reason why i ask is that i don´t saw a AMD-System until now where it was working.”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-06
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@ham4ever It has been written x times in the current amd threads that it will never work if nobody will write an ssse3 emultator, cause the old amd don´t support it.”
Lion – Catalina2012-08-20
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Absolutely not the same. arch= gives advice to Chameleon wether the i386 or x86_64 should be loaded, while -legacy disables the use of EM64T in case the i386 Kernel is loaded. (so to say the opposite / disbaler of -force64 mode, which is no…”
Lion – Catalina2012-08-08
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“here my test with LION 10.7.4 with the following boot flag: usekernelcache=no cpus=6 maxmem=4096 -v, f and with -legacy usekernelcache=no -force64 arch=x86_64 busratio=17 cpus=6 maxmem=4096 –v -f and with -legacy usekernelcache=no -force64 …”
Lion – Catalina2012-08-07
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@erineos You don´t have to change something on a kext for sb700 chipset if you are using SATA with AHCI. The AppleATIATA.kext is for IDE and not for SATA with AHCI. For SATA the IOAHCIFamily is going to be used. So delete the changed AppleA…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-26
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@Frisco This bootflags don´t make sense: arch=i386_x64 and -force64 -force64 is not implementedi n this kernel and arch=i386_x64 should be arch=x86_64 arch=x86_64 should not be used with -legacy cause arch=x86_64 is 64 bit Kernelmode and -l…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-25
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@erineos Normaly the system stocks on this point if the used harddisk is not on sata1 port.”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-22
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@ erineos Do you use cparm bootloader? If you do try MaxBusRatio=xx instead of busratio”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-21
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“But if it is too complicated for you, you can use Chameleon Wizard: osx 86.net/view/2480-chameleon_wizard_4.1.0_%5Bnew%5D.html”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-20
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@erineos If the Binary is not installed you have to be in the folder which contains the fdisk440 file! (Of course you can use full pathes too)”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-20
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@ erineos For AMD you have to compile it specially. You have to enable "#define AMD_SUPPORT" in the cpu.c before compiling it! If you want, i can upload a version where i´ve already done this, when i´m back from work. If you want to install…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-20
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Can´t understand whats the problem with the cparm bootloader because it´s pretty simple. Some flags changed a little bit but they are all in the ModuleHelp.txt. A short guide how it works: You just insert the modules you need. Every module …”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-20
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“With your kernel my system just restarts after loading kexts. I´m using a Phenom II 945. Maybe you look for the issue if you got some time. Thanks for your hard work. Greetz”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-08
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@ hanadriel I´m sure that a incorrect detected fsb is the reason why your audio lags out. You have to look that the kernel will detect your fsb correct and i´m sure it will work.”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-04
486,363 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“The problem is that there is no solution to run 32 bit apps on an amd with the 64 bit kernel. It´s just possible to run 32 bit kernel in 64 bit userland. Sorry dude. Here something different: I would have a look on these kexts, because ther…”
10.X Core2011-10-28
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Did not think on it that there is no source from dp. I´m also starring at the kernel txt file since yesterday and it´s gona to drive me crazy.”
10.X Core2011-09-21
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“@ AnV Is there a possibility to run the Lion GM with the 32 bit kernel of the DP Version? And if it work would it be possible to create an modified version?”
10.X Core2011-09-21
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“In the moment the kernel is not working until now. You can download a few pages before but as i said it is not working. I posted it on Page 7, it is compiled with xcode 4.1 but if you want to you can download the source on insanelymac and c…”
10.X Core2011-08-26
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“On a vanilla compatible cpu the kernel is working. 32 Bit + 64 Bit.”
10.X Core2011-08-26
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“This time it´s gona to be funny for amd´s. Last time there was time to get a solution until get 64 bit Userland working. Now it won´t work without it. @$The-King$ The problem isn´t the boot loader for sure. @anv Did you change something on …”
10.X Core2011-08-26
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I think it´s over for amd with lion if nobody can create a 32 bit kernel. It was also not possible to run amd in 64 kernel mode in snow leopard.”
10.X Core2011-08-26
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I uploaded the compiled kernel, so that everyone can try it. It´s compiled with xcode 4.1. Here the link for it: rapid share.com/files/2989752953/mach_kernel.zip”
10.X Core2011-08-26
165,733 dossier reads