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List of dropped platforms extends to Intel 7th gen. Kaby Lake this year, yet KBL graphics drivers are retained to support ABL graphics (2018 MacBook Air8,1). This is good omen for Kaby Lake platforms of course but especially for Skylake platforms that are able to re-use the same tricks used for Ventura, i.e. fake a KBL iGPU id and call on a KBL framebuffer. At least in this 1st beta version.... Bad news on the wireless front: IO80211FamilyLegacy kext is gone and, with it, native support for Broadcom cards based on BCM4350 and BCM4360 chipsets which includes DW1820A and all those Apple BCM94360xxx that we could use up to Ventura. We'll see if this can somehow be addressed through a patch of some sort. Interestingly enough, support for Broadcom Bluetooth appears to remain untouched, at least as far as the BT module of the Apple BCM94360CS2 card is concerned. Meantime, I called on an old TP-Link TL-WN725N v3 Wireless N Nano USB adapter that I had lying around. It's crap (802.11n 150Mbps) but will do for the moment. It's based on Realtek chipset RTL8188EUS (PCI id 0bda:8179). Other than that, nothing to report after just a brief spell with Sonoma 1st beta. Installation on my Skylake Latitude E7270 was pretty much painless: from Ventura, I updated Clover to r5151 (just in case), updated my add-on kexts to latest versions (Lilu & PlugIns mostly) and, in my Ventura Clover config, changed SMBIOS to MBP15,2 (necessary) and added boot arg -lilubetaall (also necessary). I then rebooted Ventura and launched the Sonoma installation package. Upon completion, I found that LAN, audio and external video outputs worked better if I used the combined boot args -lilubeta -wegbeta -alcbeta instead of single boot arg -lilubetaall. NB: Sonoma boots/works the same way if, instead of SMBIOS MBP15,2, I boot it with SMBIOS MBP13,1/MBP14,1 and add -no_compat_check boot arg. Avoid MBP15,1 on Skylake laptops, it prevents external video outputs for instance. Working: graphics acceleration with same KBL settings as in Ventura brightness control HDMI output mini-DP output touchscreen audio (incl. DP/HDMI audio) LAN Apple (Broadcom) BCM94360CS2 Bluetooth but a bit erratic at times (on startup and after wake) touchPad USB ports sleep wake but troublesome if hibernation is disabled so it's best to leave things untouched for the moment SD card reader Not working: Apple (Broadcom) BCM94360CS2 wireless