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Just in case someone cares or considers this laptop :)

 

10.11.5 currently, updated from 10.11.4 using appstore without a hitch;

 

"Everything" works except the radeon switched card, expected. Onboard audio is not working on mine but it could work, I just don't care and disabled it in BIOS. When I need audio I use BT or USB headphones. Had to swap the wifi card (intel) for a dell dw1560 (same as bcm94352).

 

What works : 

sleep / wake

all usb ports (no patch was needed)

battery (manually patched DSDT)

HD5500 video (patched drivers in clover .plist). VGA out works, DisplayPort not tested yet.

wireless (fakepciid)

bluetooth (brcmpatchram2 + brcmfirmwarerepo)

keyboard and trackpad (vodoops2controller), even 3-finger gestures work, its almost like a mac (except it is not haha)

backlight (ACPIBacklight + DSDT patch)

ethernet (AppleIntelE1000e)

handoff (patch driver using wireless_bcm94352_110-v4.0c.command)

 

very stable, no KPs yet (well, I had two but it was my fault as I was messing with bluetooth using BT explorer) - none on normal usage.

 

laptop details:

 

Broadwell Core i7 - 5600u @ 2.60GHz

16GB RAM (DDR3 1600)

256GB pciE SSD (sandisk)

1TB SATA HDD (added myself, there's a drive bay)

Graphics intel HD5500, full HD 1920x1080 display

4 usb ports, ethernet, DisplayPort out, vga out, sd card reader (never tried, maybe it works maybe not)

 

all things considered, a very capable machine. using it for 'production'.

 

only minor annoyance currently is that the partitions on the SSD (which is the boot disk) show as external/removable.

 

cheers

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you mean this file from linux/alsa, right? (attached). I read about this audio injection thing but I must confess it kind of eludes me :)

 

forgot to mention something probably important about the hack itself, the SMBIOS is for 13" macbook air mid-2013, as weird as it seems it was the one that worked best, and  I think that MBA is haswell not broadwell.

codec#0.txt

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never tried vodooHDA. actually I keep the audio device(s) disabled in BIOS because having them enabled prevent sleep, hangs and needs a 'shutoff'. making it work properly will likely require more DSDT patching as well.

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