Administrators Hervé Posted January 17, 2024 Author Administrators Share Posted January 17, 2024 Also revisited Sonoma guide to reflect on latest version of Clover that now fully supports blocking of vanilla IOSkywalkFamily kext, something mandatory to be able to support and use legacy wireless cards that were fully supported up to Ventura but officially dropped in Sonoma. See this thread for details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 10, 2024 Author Administrators Share Posted March 10, 2024 Sonoma guide revised for version 14.4 (new wireless kexts) as detailed in thread linked right above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted September 20, 2024 Author Administrators Share Posted September 20, 2024 Target macOS release: Sequoia 15.x This is a Clover-based installation using the well-known/well documented vanilla method detailed below: Working: full QE/CI with HD520 graphics (with KBL layout 0x59160000, KBL faked id 0x5916, MBP15,2 SMBIOS and Lilu kext v1.6.8 + Whatevergreen kext v1.6.7 or later) HDMI output OOB but built-in LCD goes off on 1st cable connection. With WEG boot arg igfxonln=1, LCD picture is recovered after closing then re-opening the LID and HDMI is on at 1st boot & after wake mDP output OOB touchscreen with USB HID fix (patch of IOHIDFamily to fake single-user mode) due to Apple dropping support for old USB hardware full audio, including jack microphone input and headset output (with AppleALC kext & layout-id 11) HDMI audio (with KBL con1 connector-type patch) built-in Gigabit Ethernet (with IntelMausiEthernet kext) full CPU power management, including Turbo boost to 3.4GHz (with PlugIn type settings) sleep: Ok through Apple menu->Sleep, lid closure, power button, Fn-Insert and energy savings settings with hibernation mode set to 0 (sleep to RAM) and /var/vm/sleepimage file deleted. wake: Ok through lid opening and power button wireless & bluetooth with any compatible card/USB dongle and necessary patching (OCLP) battery management and monitoring (with ACPIBatteryManager kext) SD card reader (with 1Revenger1's RealtekCardReader kext) integrated webcam OOB keyboard backlight control OOB (for backlit models) audio volume control through Fn-F1/Fn-F2/Fn-F3 brightness control through Fn-F11/Fn-F12 touchpad basic features, incl. buttons (with Rehabman's modified VoodooPS2Controller kext; it has a Sequoia-specific VoodooInput Plugin) USB3.0 ports (with Hackintool's generated USBPorts kext) Not Working: N/A Not tested: SmartCard reader With regards to Skylake/HD 520 graphics, same principles apply as for macOS Sonoma but make sure to update Lilu & PlugIns to latest versions: use of Kaby Lake framebuffer 0x59160000 (0x591B0000 may also be used but requires further graphics connectors patching) fake Kaby Lake HD620 iGPU id 0x5916 use Lilu v1.6.8 and Whatevergreen v1.6.7 minimum 1) 15.x USB installer creation Using a USB key of 16GB minimum, create a Sequoia USB installer through the following Terminal command: sudo <path>/Install\ macOS\ Sequoia.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/<USB key> where: <path> = location of Sequoia installation package (eg: /Applications if freshly downloaded) <USB key> = name of formatted USB volume (eg: USB_16GB) The process will take several minutes. Once completed: install Clover bootloader on the USB installer with the following customised settings: Clover for UEFI booting only Install Clover in the ESP UEFI Drivers Recommended drivers FSInject SMCHelper Human Interface Devices (optional) Ps2MouseDxe UsbMouseDxe FileSystem Drivers ApfsDriverLoader Memory fix drivers OpenRuntime Additional Drivers (optional) NvmExpressDxe PartitionDxe Themes (optional) BootLoaderChooser (optional) CloverConfigPlistValidator (optional) Install Clover Preference Pane (optional) you may use Clover version r5159 or later as attached below Clover_r5159.pkg.zip once Clover is installed, launch Clover Configurator app and mount the freshly created EFI partition of the USB installer (attached version supports BlockSkywalk kext patch) Clover Configurator.zip add the (unzipped) HFSPlus driver attached below to the EFI/CLOVER/drivers/UEFI folder HFSPlus.efi.zip open this EFI partition and transfer/copy the files & folders from the Latitude E7270 Sequoia Clover pack below to the EFI/CLOVER folder Clover_Bootpack_E7270_Sequoia.zip if support for legacy Broadcom wifi is required, download the latest OCLP app from its GitHub repo and save the package at the root of the USB installer. It'll be required to recover wifi support. 2) 15.x installation boot the Sequoia USB installer at the Clover main menu, select the "Install macOS Sequoia" partition (but don't press [ENTER]) press [SPACE], select -v verbose option in the menu, then choose to boot with the selected options proceed with installation, creating & formatting the target Sequoia installation through Disk Utility as/if required on 1st reboot, boot off the USB installer and select the freshly created "macOS install from <target Sequoia partition>" repeat this until this partition is no longer offered and only the target Sequoia partition is left to boot Reboot the target Sequoia partition via your USB installer 3) Post-installation tuning Once the target Sequoia partition has booted, complete the 1st boot configuration tuning Once at the desktop, install Clover bootloader on the Sequoia partition/disk with the customised settings listed above Once Clover is installed, launch Clover Configurator app and mount the freshly created EFI partition of the Sequoia partition/disk Open this EFI partition and transfer the files & folders from the above Latitude E7270 Sequoia Clover pack to the EFI/Clover folder You may then reboot and verify that Sequoia boots off your disk through Clover At that stage, the E7270 will be running Sequoia without support for legacy Broadcom wifi 4) Adding support for legacy Broadcom wifi launch Clover Configurator app and mount the EFI partition of the Sequoia partition/disk Add the kexts from the Legacy_Broadcom_Wifi pack below to the EFI/Clover/kexts/15 folder alongside the existing kexts. Legacy_Broadcom_Support_Pack.zip Open up the Clover config in Clover Configurator and check/enable the BlockSkywalk kernel & kext patch then save the configuration Reboot then install and launch the OCLP app Proceed with root patching which should automatically detect that wireless networking requires patching After another reboot, Wifi off the legacy Broadcom cards will be fully functional again If in doubt, check this thread for detailed guidance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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