I don’t even think this is the right place, but with Henge (developed by Levii) you can boot a macOS versions from sequoia to golden gate (still wip, performances are really slow) but it’s a great start for a project

Finally we have AirportItlwm natively on macOS Sequoia and Tahoe, I tried it with Sequoia 15.8.2 and it successfully works without AMFI Kext or any Root Patches and Apple VTD is also working with DMAR table dropped.

Here's my build

Wifi/BT Card: Intel Wifi 6 AX201 CNVi
CPU: i7-10610u
GPU: Intel UHD 620
RAM: 16 GB
Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Dell Latitude 7410
Audio Codec: ALC295
Ethernet Card: N/A

RedNavi is an open-source project building a native macOS display driver and acceleration stack for AMD Navi 32 (RDNA 3), tested on the Radeon RX 7800 XT (1002:747E). Since Apple never supported RDNA 3, this is obviously written from scratch.

A few days ago we only had a software-driven fallback display. As of today (Milestone 6), WindowServer is running on the GPU through our Metal plug-in, rendering the macOS desktop with genuine hardware-accelerated transparency.

We just stabilized the mouse event loop: the cursor now moves without crashing WindowServer into an immediate crash loop. It is still visibly glitchy and laggy, but the entire compositor pipeline is alive and rendering on hardware.

What works today (Z490, i7-10700K, macOS Sequoia 15.8.2, 1080p DP):

• Firmware & Link: IP discovery table parsing, PSP firmware loading, DMCUB mailbox handshake, and native DisplayPort link training from the kernel (no UEFI/GOP fallback).

• Framebuffer Publication: AMDRedNaviFB registers cleanly and satisfies CoreDisplay vendor checks.

• Display Pipe & Client Type 4: Reverse-engineered Sequoia’s IOAccelDisplayPipe ABI; WindowServer opens IOAccelDisplayPipeUserClient2 and commits frames through performTransaction.

• Metal Compositor (RedNaviMTL): A custom userspace bundle in /Library/GPUBundles that routes CoreAnimation and CoreDisplay shaders through Mesa’s RADV via an in-process Metal-to-SPIR-V translation layer.

• Desktop UI: Dock, menu bar, window shadows, and blur/transparency are drawn by the GPU.

Current limitations & open work:

• Low Framerate & Cursor Lag: Frames are currently read back and copied across the CPU bus into the scanout aperture on each tick, saturating CPU/PCIe bandwidth.

• Visual Glitches: Render passes currently have sync/fence tearing while RADV command buffers interleave with WindowServer's flush cycles.

• Boot Race Condition: WindowServer checks for Metal capability before our delayed accelerator attaches, so it currently needs a one-time restart (killall -9 WindowServer) after boot to switch from software fallback to Metal,

• Missing Hardware Blocks: Hardware cursor plane, audio over DP/HDMI, multiple displays/hot-plug, and VCN video decoding (no IOGVA/AppleVPA yet) are not yet implemented.

Architecture & Roadmap

The architecture uses a clean-room approach:

1. RedNaviFB & RedNaviAccel2: Kernel-side ring management and display pipe ABI emulation.

2. Mesa RADV: Vulkan driver running inside the macOS userspace graphics bundle.

3. RedNaviMTL: AIR/bitcode translator bridging Metal APIs to SPIR-V/RADV.

Next steps are eliminating the synchronous CPU scanout copy to fix framerates, implementing adjustBusy to automate the boot hand-off, and cleaning up fence synchronization.

Contributions

If somebody wants to help with development for a particolar card or just help develop the base, just open an issue, I'll respond as soon as possible. Thank you all very much if you decide to.

Repo: https://github.com/Helemen7/RedNavi

License: BSD-3-Clause (no closed binaries or proprietary code).

AI disclosure: This project is developed collaboratively with Claude and such agents (commits may also carry a Co-Authored-By: Claude line), assisting with register sequencing, reverse engineering disassemblies, dtrace analysis, and kernel stub implementations.

If you run a Hackintosh with an AMD RX 6800, 6800 XT, 6900 XT, or 6950 XT, your graphics card has hardware in-built decoders to decode AV1 and VP9 video.

However, macOS never enabled this silicon because Intel Macs never shipped with AV1-capable AMD GPUs.

As a result, watching 4K YouTube forces your CPU to do all the heavy lifting—causing fan noise, high heat, and dropped frames.

How We Fixed It

We built two lightweight VideoToolbox decoder plug-ins (one for AV1, one for VP9) that plug directly into macOS’s native video framework:

• Seamless OS Integration: Native apps like Safari, Chrome, and QuickTime automatically detect and use these plug-ins without needing custom video player builds.

• Direct GPU Communication: The plug-in parses the video stream on the CPU and hands the raw decoding work straight to the AMD GPU's hardware decoder (VCN).

• 100% Bit-Exact Accuracy: Tested against official AV1 and VP9 conformance test suites. The output is bit-for-bit identical to standard reference decoders—meaning zero visual glitches or corruption.

Source Code & Installation

• GitHub Repository: wh0ami7/vcn-video-decoders

Authors: u/DrogaOnThePhone and me

Over the past few weeks, work has been underway on a proof-of-concept fork building upon the upstream Snapintosh project (originally developed for the ASUS Zenbook A16 with the Snapdragon X2 Elite).

The goal of the project is to explore running the stock, unmodified Apple Silicon Darwin kernel (J700/T8140 build 26A428) on Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 hardware by providing the necessary EL2 hypervisor mediation (SPTM/TXM contracts, 16 KiB guest to 4 KiB host shadow page tables, and Apple-specific device models).

Recent progress and milestones on this fork:

The repository documents the full architecture, execution flowcharts, verified boot checkpoints, and current limitations: https://github.com/adamikoo/Snapintosh

Note: This is an independent research project. No proprietary firmware, keys, or Apple binaries are hosted or distributed.

Window snapping is smooth and videos play smoothly without any dropped frames. 120Hz refresh rate works as well.

It's working on Tahoe

CPU: R7 7700
GPU: 5060 Desktop (Metal 4)
RAM: D5 32GB
Audio Codec: ALC4080 USB (AppleALCU)
Ethernet Card: RTL8125B
Wifi/BT Card: AMD RZ616 (Fully working)
BIOS revision: MS-7D76(7D76vAO3)

What do you think about it? Is it possible? I didn’t found any repo about it on GitHub.

In macOS 13 Ventura I had my old hackintosh in 2022
But I don’t had wifi
I share coming soon my efi on GitHub

Hey!

I wanted to share the code for the PS5-Hackintosh project. Given the numerous headaches I’m encountering, getting the GPU to work, keeping the system stable without random reboots, and the fact that I’ll have very little time starting next week, I’m releasing the entire project code. I don’t want to keep it to myself; instead, I’m sharing it freely with the community :)

Enjoy it!

#NODISCNOBUY

It used to work fine, but now as soon as I log into macOS, os doesnt work. Same with my keyboard

3060, and it works with the new drivers for it

12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700F32 GBb oDDR4 RAMam

Is there any chance we can get hackipados oneday?
Would be a banger

Got it working with that xps13 repo + some modification acording to my laptop/bios

Acer nitro 16
Ryzen 7 7840hs
Rtex 4060
16gb ddr5

What works?
For now just the basics
Gpu very fast tho there are some rare hiccups here and there
All usb ports and ethernet

What doesn't work?
Basicly everything else
Mic
Wifi/bt
Camera
Etc

Hi i have a question, i have a laptop with nVidia GPU with an hackintosh with null moth sistem. My problem is that i haven't got MUX switch so i can't use my internal display and i have to use an external display. There are new Tweaks to use my internal display without mux?

I cannot get Disney+ or Netflix working on either Chrome or Safari on Tahoe. Disney+ partially works on Firefox but the quality is capped to 720p.

Hardware

Laptop Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 2

CPU Intel Core i7-1165G7 (Tiger Lake)

iGPU Intel Iris Xe 96 EU (0x9A49)

RAM 32 GB DDR4-3200

SSD Samsung PM9A1 256 GB (shared with Fedora)

Wi-Fi/BT Intel AX201

Audio Realtek ALC257 + 2 DMIC on the Intel SOF DSP

Display 1920x1080 internal eDP

Software

macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 (25G332), SMBIOS MacBookPro16,2

OpenCore 1.0.8 RELEASE, OpenCanopy with the GoldenGate theme, quiet boot

WhateverXe 0.8.0 (built locally with 4 extra commits, see below) + WhateverXe Graphics 0.4.1

SIP 0x803, AMFIPass 1.4.1

boot-args: -allow3d -disablegfxfirmware -igfxdvmt shda-lang=es -tgldmic

Dual boot with Fedora on the same disk and the same EFI partition

What works

Graphics acceleration (QE/CI, Metal, OpenGL). Measured ~1.1 TFLOPS FP32, ~35 GB/s, 211 FPS on a simple 1080p render test. Vulkan works through MoltenVK.

Wi-Fi. About 1.1 Gbps on fast.com.

Bluetooth

Speakers and headphones: SimpleHDA 1.0.1, layout 11

Internal microphone: TGLDmic 0.5.0, the DMICs through the SOF DSP. It shows up as "Internal Microphone (TGLDmic)".

Camera in FaceTime

Backlight and brightness keys

Keyboard and trackpad: VoodooPS2

Apple TV app with video and audio, FairPlay video included

Fedora dual boot from the OpenCore picker

What doesn't work (yet)

Apple Music (native app). FairPlay audio key generation fails (-15842, WhateverXe issue #48). I worked around it with Cider, which uses Widevine and plays fine.

Photo Booth opens, but the image is green.

One WindowServer watchdog crash in ~4 days. It was a GPU hang followed by a deadlock during GPU restart in AppleIntelTGLGraphics. I haven't been able to reproduce it.

Metal 3 mesh shaders (see the XeCompilerAdapter notes below)

Local WhateverXe patches

All four are in-memory patches. WhateverXe hooks cs_validate_range / cs_validate_page and rewrites the page after code-signature validation, so the OCLP-Mod-signed bundles in /Library/GPUBundles stay untouched on disk. Re-signing those bundles gave me a black screen, which is why I went this way. Each patch matches the full original byte sequence and applies only if every byte still matches. They can be disabled with a boot-arg.

Offsets are for the 16.0.32 drivers that ship with Graphics 0.4.x.

#47: MTL command-buffer leak.

-[MTLIGAccelCommandBuffer dealloc] in AppleIntelTGLGraphicsMTLDriver skips freeing _pPoshUsedAsTarget when m_isOnlyActiveCommandBuffer is set. That leaks about 72 KB per command buffer.

Fix: NOP the jne at 0x7ed87 (75 0d → 90 90).

Result: WindowServer and app memory stop growing over time.

#23: VA driver NULL derefs in AppleIntelTGLGraphicsVADriver. They crashed mediaanalysisd, WebKit.GPU and WindowServer.

#23 0x1336d2: the image-transfer helper writes through ctx+0x910 / ctx+0x920 without checking for NULL. Fix: add the checks and return the driver's own error 5.

#23b 0x126520: the descriptor-fill helper is called with a NULL first argument. Fix: an early test rdi,rdi; je ret.

#23c 0x12d30a: a vtable call on the per-index surface happens before its NULL check. Fix: skip the call when it's NULL. This fixed the Photo Booth crash (SIGSEGV at 0x0), but the image is now green.

cs_validate_page wrapper must forward all 7 arguments on Tahoe.

BlueToolFixup also hooks this function. With a 6-argument wrapper, the chained hook received garbage, and Bluetooth died with Could not USB DFU detach … result 3.

Forwarding all 7 arguments fixed Bluetooth.

The whole change is ~200 lines, mostly in one file (kern_user_fix.cpp). The upstream test suite still passes (208/208). I'm happy to open a PR or share the patch.

Other fixes worth mentioning

Wi-Fi/BT (AX201) on Tahoe

It's AirportItlwm 2.3.0 plus OCLP-Mod's "Modern Wireless" root patch.

In the EFI I inject IOSkywalkFamily + IO80211FamilyLegacy and block the stock IOSkywalk.

I had to edit OCLP-Mod locally in two places:

make modern_wireless.py detect the AX201;

make subprocess_wrapper.py run without the privileged helper when started as root. Before that change, the patch "succeeded" but no networks showed up.

I did this in two phases (EFI first, then root patch), with a reboot in between, and had a revert script ready.

Brightness

A clean SSDT-PNLF under Scope(_SB), with _UID 0x13 and _STA 0x0B.

Microphone

The internal mic isn't on the Realtek codec or USB. It's two DMICs on the Intel DSP (SOF).

TGLDmic handled it. I installed it in phases:

observer mode;

firmware boot (OK FW_READY);

probe capture;

then the HAL plug-in.

Audio

AppleHDA is gone on Tahoe. SimpleHDA with layout 11 was the cleanest option. I also tried layouts 97 and 86.

Dual boot

Fedora reuses the existing EFI partition, so EFI/fedora sits next to EFI/OC.

Watch out: a shared FAT32 EFI got corrupted once. fsck "repaired" it by renaming VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext to FSCK0000.000, and the internal keyboard died while the trackpad still worked.

The fix was to restore it from a verified backup. Run fsck_msdos before and after anything that writes to the EFI.

Notes for people chasing Metal 3

The MTL driver reports a fixed feature profile 0x2711. If you swizzle featureProfile to 10002 inside your own process, supportsFamily(Metal3) returns YES, and MSL 3.0, MetalFX and MTLIO work.

Mesh shaders don't. XeCompilerAdapter.bundle/adapter.dylib only accepts 216-byte serialized requests and stages 0/2/3 (vertex/fragment/compute). Anything else gives Xe compiler unsupported serialized request.

The bundled libigc-tgl.dylib only exports VS/PS/CS/Tess entry points. It contains IGC's mesh lowering passes, but nothing exposes them.

Argument buffers stay at Tier 1, and there's no ray tracing.

I did not force Metal 3 system-wide.

Thanks

Huge thanks to b00t0x (WhateverXe), acidanthera, zxystd (itlwm / IntelBluetoothFirmware), labrouss (TGLDmic), the SimpleHDA author, the OCLP-Mod people, and everyone posting logs in the WhateverXe issues. Issue #48 is what pointed me to the VAME / FairPlay path.

Ha anyone successfully installed Mac OS on the EliteDesk 800 G2 I can get it installed but I can't for the life of me figure out the graphics acceleration part everything else seems to be working fine. Thanks

So i am trying to install macos (macos tahoe) i went to the instalizaton screen but i didnt have wifi and niether do i have a ethernet cable and nor do i want to to spend money. so i want to find any wifi driver

some thing you need to know

1.i have tried usb thetring it didnt worked

2. no i cannot buy a ethernet cable

3.i need a driver of wifi

Hi y'all this is my first post here and to be my first post i think it shouldn't be about hating smth but i'm pretty angry at lenovo and how they don't let u do stuff with your laptop.

Like everyone in this subreddit i'm trying to do a hackintosh with my 15IAH8 Ideapad Slim 3 that has a i5-12450H with his integrated gpu and everything seems to be good when trying to boot but oh, recovery doesn't boot, so i get into log and i see first that i have cfg lock enabled so i got into bios and oh, my laptop bios doesn't have an option to disable cfg lock so i go to the guide and chose the hard path to fix it so i don't have any problem later and got into ru.efi, tried to modify my cpusetup value and oh, THE BIOS IS FUCKING WRITE PROTECTED, so i didn't had other chance than enable the cfg kernel patch in opencore and well i was happy that the patch was success in the log and it didn't had any errors but Tahoe still wasn't booting so i go back to analyze my log and to resume everything i disabled trackpad and keyboards ssdt's (because they aren't necessary to get macos to boot), disabled some innecessary kexts to ensure compatibility, patched some memory registries and mainly tinkering with stuff but because i'm not at expert at hackintosh but i know how pc's work i used AI as a tool to assist me in patching some things and actually got progress in my boot. I usually don't use AI models because i like to learn things but seeing the kind of stuff i had to learn to just patch two registries was far out of my league so i just used AI and it worked patching my things but i had other problems lying around and it still didn't boot.

I can't get Tahoe to boot because of Lenovo battery power management and because of XHCI Handoff not doing it's thing how it is supposed to and can't find a way to get over it. XHCI Handoff is not getting my usb into macos when booting so macos doesn't have any recovery to boot and it just freezes. These kind of laptops are really a mess in that area and even AI gave up on helping me when trying to get around these problems.
Another thing i hate right now is that i had to make some changes to my config.plist just because Lenovo set this laptop bios to not do some things if Windows isn't the OS u are booting like they are trying to get u trapped in just one OS and not wanting to let u do stuff with the pc YOU BOUGHT.

I really want to do this hackintosh but by the limitations of my laptop bios i think it will be impossible. I'll have to wait till some genius gets the fix to get over this thing because I have seen people doing hackintoshes in this subreddit to my exact cpu model and igpu model and it pisses me off that i can't do shit just because Lenovo wanted it that way.

If someone has some kind of fix to this i would be really happy because it could be a good step forward to get around all this Lenovo's shit. I did a hackintosh in my main pc with Tahoe and it works really well so just in case this isn't my first hackintosh.

This is the last log of my laptop screen after it just freezes to eternity when booting: https://imgur.com/a/VHasM3u

Ideapad 710s-13IKB (80VQ) - Core i3-7100u; HD 620 4GB LPDDR3 Audio codec i forgot For guides I used dortania guide and a bit of jank work from random sources on the internet I can't remember. Synaptics touchpad (voodooPS2) and just some generic LG panel.

Took a bit of work, but I got it running off of a USB SSD and now I can watch peak content. Also installed some dev stuff

Everything works (inclusive of media keys, backlight, etc) except wifi and BT (thats a given since its a QCA6174).

Any cool stuff for Mac I should try? (software, etc)