@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 18 days agoThe End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Ushackaday.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1256cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•18 days agoIs there no way to get it to run on ARM systems? Are none of them powerful enough to be useful without being Macs?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•18 days agoARM isn’t plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers) You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won’t have devicetrees for other devices. You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-218 days agoGiven Apple‘s past, the most they will do is, at some future date, make macOS capable of reading custom JSON device tree files. Maybe
Is there no way to get it to run on ARM systems? Are none of them powerful enough to be useful without being Macs?
ARM isn’t plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers)
You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer
Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won’t have devicetrees for other devices.
You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before
Given Apple‘s past, the most they will do is, at some future date, make macOS capable of reading custom JSON device tree files. Maybe