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Private alpha test of Voodoo 9.5 Kernel

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mitch_de
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BACK !

 

First boot,even removed kernel caches gave my desktop with spinning wheel in background (never seen that before - if spinning wheel then ever on gray startup, not later).

Second boot (-v) boots up normal.

ALL OK , 64 Bit OK.

Platform Mac OS X x86 (64-bit)

Compiler GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)

Operating System Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Build 9F33)

Model Hackintosh

Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP35-DS3 x.x

Processor Intel® Core™2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz

Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 2

Logical Processors 2

Physical Processors 1

Processor Frequency 2.40 GHz

L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB

L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB

L2 Cache 2.00 MB

L3 Cache 0.00 B

Bus Frequency 960 MHz

Memory 2.00 GB

Memory Type 800 MHz RAM

SIMD 1

BIOS Award Software International, Inc. F3

Processor Model Intel Core 2 Duo E4400

 

Now i will play Crysis Warhead - but with "other" kernel :guitar:

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mitch_de
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Changes comparing the infos files A13 with B1 kernels with diff sysctl_A13.txt sysctl_B1.txt:

hw.optional.patcher_opts: 0 (is that new?)

whats that, some changes:

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> machdep.pmap.hashmax: 21

> machdep.pmap.hashcnts: 2113030

> machdep.pmap.hashwalks: 1714503

???

 

SLEEP WORDED :)Internet (DSL Login) OK :)(sure, automatic reconnet after sleep needed)

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mitch_de
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Changelog ??

Same as every Apples update changelogs : optimized, stability fixes - mercurysquad is an Mac OS X hero :) and so he must be mystic too :)

(Without joke: He will tell us that things sure)

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mercurysquad
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If I install this and something goes wrong, how can I restore or revert back to my current kernel and system kext?

 

Please read the documentation included with the package. The first paragraph itself mentions how to install the kernel and how to make sure it doesn't interfere with your existing kernel! Thanks for testing.

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mercurysquad
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Changelog ??

 

Here.

 

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT ask questions about individual changesets because it is all internal and not everything makes sense or even made it into the binary version currently uploaded.

 

 

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Fri Oct 03 04:59:42 2008 +0530
summary:	 Added tag beta1 for changeset 8231c2ee01e1

tag:		 beta1
user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Fri Oct 03 04:59:16 2008 +0530
summary:	 Changed version tag to remove 'based on ToH' and tagged it as Beta 1 in preparation.

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Fri Oct 03 04:52:32 2008 +0530
summary:	 Merged the stabs/dwarf reversal back into default

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Fri Oct 03 04:50:00 2008 +0530
summary:	 Backed out changeset 6e9e50fcb130 - don't modify Makefile to generate stabs because it interferes with VoodooBuild

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Fri Oct 03 04:46:35 2008 +0530
summary:	 Pre-Beta merge

user:		kaitek
date:		Sun Sep 28 21:19:09 2008 -0700
summary:	 Add missing patcher_opts.h file

user:		kaitek
date:		Sun Sep 28 19:36:47 2008 -0700
summary:	 Improved error detection for instruction decoding. Added optional support for fisttp to opcode patcher.

user:		kaitek
date:		Sun Sep 28 18:37:00 2008 -0700
summary:	 Change IOBSDGetPlatformUUID() to publish and return a fake platform UUID if none is found

user:		kaitek
date:		Sun Sep 28 18:36:31 2008 -0700
summary:	 Generate stabs debugging symbols by default instead of dwarf

user:		kaitek
date:		Sun Sep 28 18:35:53 2008 -0700
summary:	 Move CPU_FAMILY_* definitions to cpuid.h

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Fri Sep 26 23:11:20 2008 +0530
summary:	 Merged latest changes from 'cutdown'

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:31:47 2008 +0530
summary:	 Avoid possible divide by zero in amd cache info function in case ncores is returned as zero (you never know..)

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:21:30 2008 +0530
summary:	 Backed out changeset 092a56d595b1 because of incorrect tag - that copy was modified after alpha13, so can't be called alpha13-verified.

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:16:49 2008 +0530
summary:	 Added tag alpha13-verified for changeset 02206f17deaa

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:03:11 2008 +0530
summary:	 More cache fixes - L2 should be reported as total size apparently... all you multicore people should be happy now.

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 11:15:50 2008 +0530
summary:	 Fixed L1 cache to use bytes, not KB, in cpuid.c

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 10:00:55 2008 +0530
summary:	 Changed hw.cachesize to be exclusive rather than inclusive, so we use apple's code only for apple-supported intel cpus. This should fix any remaining system profiler crashes.

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 08:48:47 2008 +0530
summary:	 Merged commpage sse3emu 32bit fix.

user:		Dense <slipstreamosx@gmail.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:43:10 2008 +1000
summary:	 Attributed wait queue unlock fix patch

user:		Dense <slipstreamosx@gmail.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:35:25 2008 +1000
summary:	 Restored etimer.h back to vanilla

user:		Dense <slipstreamosx@gmail.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 12:34:13 2008 +1000
summary:	 Whitespace cleanup in commpage.c and tsc.c

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 08:46:43 2008 +0530
summary:	 Moved sse3 emu commpage stuffing out of generic stuffer and in between 32-bit and 64-bit stuffers, so it's stuffed only for 32 bit

user:		mercurysquad <mercurysquad@yahoo.com>
date:		Thu Sep 25 07:34:15 2008 +0530
summary:	 Added tag alpha13 for changeset 1e55e4b19e3c

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mitch_de
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If I install this and something goes wrong, how can I restore or revert back to my current kernel and system kext?

As m said, its better to use new kernel with kernel boot floags: vooddoo_kernel -v (means loading that named kernel).

Dont overwrite your mach_kernel for first tests !

You can get it back:

0. Boot with kernel flag : mach_kernel.backup (you must have such named kernel for this), and restore it afterwards

or

1. Boot from an bootable backup volume and restore that mach_kernel to your working volume

or

2. boot from DVD and get into terminal and restore your kernel from an backup

If you cant 0, 1 and 2 you have an problem , if the system didnt boot up

 

Give an TRY:

boot into safe mode (once) -x and then shutdown, try boot

 

I had also use 2 boots to get it worked !

Tested(Intel C2D) one hour : Cpuinfos OK, Network OK, Sleep OK, 64 Bit OK

 

Audio with new voodooB1: NO problems! - only a bit loud+hard+heavy ? :)

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chico_stang
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OK, testing now. Everything seems to be working, and faster than before. X Bench score is higher. Only thing that partially works is sleep. It goes to sleep fine, but when I press the power button, it wakes up, however, the monitor stays black. So far, that's the only issue. Will continue testing for a few more hours and report back.

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