s3n4te Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 I've been researching and reading this forum for the past few days... and I come past terms and things that I don't understand. I was wondering if you could explain it to me in "English". Thanks. First I don't get what is this 10.4.8 kernel thing that's being discuss. What is a kernel anyways? I have a SSE2 AMD processor, why do I see people saying that SSE2 support for 10.4.8 is coming when I did some searching and found that Jas had released a update for SSE2 CPUS for 10.4.8. I've been reading about this "Titan Project" it needs 10.4.8 update or something like that, so if I install this Jas update will I be able to test this Titan project out on SSE2? Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 The kernel (real name mach_kernel) is the brain of the OS. For a long time we were stuck using a hacked kernel from 10.4.4 for all OSX installations on Hackintosh. But recently, a way to use the 10.4.8 kernel was discovered. The JaS SSE2 update has the old kernel. A new kernel for SSE2 will take some work. Titan really needs a new kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3n4te Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 What is the difference between the kernels? If it was running the 10.4.4 kernel how did we get updates higher than 10.4.4 to install and work withou that versions kernel. ie how did you get 10.4.6 to work without the 10.4.6 kernel? confusing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Guess what? Many components in a 10.4.6 installation are really components from a 10.4.4 installation because the 10.4.6 components wouldn't work with the old kernel. And it got worse for the 10.4.7 update and even worse for the 10.4.8 update. But with the 10.4.8 kernel, we get most (but not all) of the newest components to work. That is why it is called Hackintosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyBrian Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 the osx kernel can have features added in later versions. that's why some of the components need the newer kernels. one of the main reasons the nvidia kexts (which titan uses) only work on the 10.4.8 kernel is because all the intel macs with nvidia cards came with 10.4.8 (no intel mac before the mac pro came with an nvidia card and the mac pro was the only one that had interchangeable graphics cards). since a lot of people had them before apple supported them, apple would benefit from locking those people out of opengl accelleration since they're pirates anyway (as said before, all intel macs with nvidia cards or even support for them for that matter came with 10.4.8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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