xieandy Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 like the title...since snow is a 64bit........dont we need new driver? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 you can boot snow into 32bit mode, and people don't really need 64bit unless you are using 32GB or more of ram... Some kexts have been rewritten already... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/#findComment-1237562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I'm using Natit (which dates back to Tiger) and the Leopard AppleIntel8255x.kext for my Intel Pro/100 ethernet. Both seem to work as well as they did before SL. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/#findComment-1237843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xieandy Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 you can boot snow into 32bit mode, and people don't really need 64bit unless you are using 32GB or more of ram... Some kexts have been rewritten already... so correct me if i am wrong, the 32bit boot wouldnt effect on the out of the box 64bit app such as Finder/quicktime X, and i can stick w/ the drivers i have and run on 32bit until the re-written 64bit one comes out... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/#findComment-1237937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 as far as i can tell with my and other people's testing yes. Snow can beet booted into 32bit with the flag at boot... You could stick with 32bit until you have more than 32GB of ram being addressed... Though you would probs change tat earlier than that because snow would be outdated by the time 32GB and more works its way into most homes.... The real improvements are in servers (like the xserve) and those $30,000 mac pros... As i said earlier, a fair few kexts have been rewritten, (around 10 from the top of my head) and these with the leo ones are enough to boot into 64, providing that EFI strings and dsdt.aml are used to their maximum extent Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/#findComment-1238598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xieandy Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 thx~~! i'l probably go w/ that.... tho, i am quite new to osx, efi string/dsdt im not too familiar w/...yet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/#findComment-1238757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 have you got Leopard installed, and running perfectly... If not, i would recomend you try to, a better place to start. Try a retail install for example. Uses almost the same process as here, so you would be able to become familliar with certain terms and file types. EFI String is a bunch of numbers that are put into the com.apple.Boot.plist file that emulate some hardware in real macs. THis allows the kernel to see the device and run it.... like hardware detection and with mac, the driver kinda in one.... Thats simlified a lot... DSDT.aml is a file which you can make from OSX, leopard or tiger, and it contains info and some drivers to make the system work... Some people need one to boot for leo... most need one for snow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182005-will-leopard-drivers-work-on-snow/#findComment-1238763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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