deadreaper Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I know that Nawcom is probably the only person developing a kernel for AMD , and now he has medical issues and is taking some time off . So I was wondering If it is possible for someone else to create a kernel . Mountain Lion will be released soon enough and so far , no one has taken up the initiative . Â And so I though maybe i could look into the issue , trust me I am not really experience at the time of writing , but I am an amateur either . I have sufficient experience in OS X and I have a working OS X Snow Leopard on AMD . SO I started learning Xcode and cocoa . I Went through dozens of resources on how the kernel works and how the mach kernel works . And recently I just got this idea . Â Nawcom patches the open source XNU kernel right ? And it works for AMD . So what I did was I opened up a couple of Nawcom's patches . I came to the conclusion that he used patches which were discovered quite a while back . So from this I came to the conclusion that the main thing he is doing is patching the XNU kernel with patches perviously made by mercury squad and a few others . I know that they put in a lot of effort in finding how AMD can be included in the kernel . So What I was thinking was , what if someone used the same .diff file for nawcom's previous legacy kernels for the 10.6 and combine them with the new legacy atom kernel for lion . Â I tried doing that , and now the combining is almost complete . I really do hope this works . I am looking for testers . Â Also , anyone who has experience with the mach_kernel or at least on the patches , please correct me if I am wrong . Â People don't give up hope , Hackintosh has been there for quite sometime and It will be there for quite sometime , no matter who stops working for the project . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMacMongo Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I would be willing to test. I just got SL running. See specs in sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyanDreams Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Definitely willing to test this out too. I just got SL back up and updated to 10.6.8 on my system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Nuss Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I am very interested in helping test the development of this. I wonder if it is worth working on a Lion kernel or just jumping straight into ML. Â AMD Phenom 9600 Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 (rev. 1.0) Geforce GTS 450 1GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I'd test that too. HP DV7-2160eg Laptop with AMD Mobile Athlon II M320 CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K. Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I'm ready to test run the new kernel on my updated 10.6.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashael Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I`m on for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 I can't test this, but one of my friends has Snow Leopard successfully running on his AMD computer. He would LOVE to have Lion running on his machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serg1991 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 from applelife.ru http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/6927/86122265.png  i dont know how... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Can you link to the thread where the pic was posted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serg1991 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 ofcourse http://www.applelife.ru/threads/mac-os-x-10-7-lion-и-amd.31619/page-2#post-279889 if you want, i can translate it, but my english isnt good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMacMongo Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) http://www.enigma.id...ompile_xnu.html  was looking at this for compiling. I think the bulldozer cpu will not work with the rest of the amd kernels. as everyone else seems to be able to run the 10.8 kernel for amds to update their SL to 10.6.8. The bulldozer crowd doesn't seem to be able to get past 10.6.4 since modbin_kernel is the only one that works (as so far seen) and does not support higher than osx 10.6.4  Could something like that be done, or anyone familiar enough to give a guide if no one has time to try to make a working kernel for the bulldozer.  If anyone knows their kernels well and wouldn't mind seeing what the main differences are between the modbin_kernel and the amd legacy kernel from nawcom.  After more research, even the linux kernel had to have specific adjustments for the bulldozer. Perhaps those could be implemented into the amd lion kernel Edited March 25, 2012 by mongo722 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Google Translate is good enough for me to understand. Seems that guy really got a (32-bit only) Lion kernel working on AMD. Unfortunately he doesn't want to share at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackmymac Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I have a AMD box and I'm willing to break it. Share your work and we'll get this working together!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashael Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6AcTpc-i2w Can some1 explain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 AnV has developed a legacy kernel for Lion, but it has failed most AMD users. Maybe a few got lucky and are using AnV's kernel? Â He posted the kernel here on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 @Ashael: I guess this can be considered video proof of working 32bit amd lion kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serg1991 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 lion kernel for 10.7.3 amd as family 15 - 16 , model 6 ! doesnt work with intel, works with some amd link http://www.mediafire...ontvl5nznf58n9h 32bit with -legacy if you have 64bit amd with sse3, you havent to type it  by bronzovka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMacMongo Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 well on first try with this kernel I just get a restart and I have the family 15 cpu. Will keep trying and keep you posted. Â figured out why. My cpu is the family 0x15 but it's not model 6 it's model 0x1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K. Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 EvilMacMongo, how do you check for the CPU Family? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Under Windows with CPU-Z. Under OS X with the command you can see in the video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashael Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 What a shame . I have an AMD Phenom II x4 955, F10 model 4. q.q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMacMongo Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 it's a sad day. But don't lose hope, this is just the first stepping stone in a great journey for all of us AMD lovers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawilliams660 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I have two 17" laptops ones a AMD and the other is a I7, just wondering if I can run this...here is my specs from CPU-Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 If anyone can get their hands on the source, we can possibly look and see if we can expand this kernel to other CPUs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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