WinstonAce Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 It's started with bios F7C which fixed ALC889 (not ALC889A) in Snow Leopard (don't have a clue how) and now in bios F9C it's got specific parts for OSX/Darwin for example:if it's detect darwin than it's load different RTC which has Length 02 no more bios reset on gigabyte boards original dsdt from F9C (P55A-UD4P) attached dsdt_GBTUACPI.dsl.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smith@@™ Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Good new for gigabyte user, my next mobo.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1428927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymacx86 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Goog new for gigabyte user, my next mobo.. Oh this is great news- if my sources are correct we'll be seeing many more optimizations in future bioses for Hackintoshes! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1429709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirloui Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I hope very much for such a direction... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1429828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Good find WinstonAce. Something to keep an eye on Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1429877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Oh man, i cant finish a thing and another opens... i wish i was 10! I cant hold mysel, reading the code like a crazy right now (and delaying what i should be doing) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1429881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buwie Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Woot very kool news! Oh man, i cant finish a thing and another opens... i wish i was 10! LOL, i was just going to post a link to this thread in your thread, but you made it here already For a moment i was hoping Gigabyte found you, well maybe they did. I wish i could bring Gigabyte in contact with you, that would be soo kool for this community. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1429884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Woot very kool news! LOL, i was just going to post a link to this thread in your thread, but you made it here already For a moment i was hoping Gigabyte found you, well maybe they did. I wish i could bring Gigabyte in contact with you, that would be soo kool for this community. In future hopes... a guy who found Gigabyte found me. Thats all i can say in public before anything in any direction takes place. (censored by myself, always, of course) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1431297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorg Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Gigabyte are making their bios more Hackintosh friendly Either that or Gigabyte gives money under the table to the leaders/developers/hackers of the OSx86 community in order to make its boards look better Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1431601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Either that or Gigabyte gives money under the table to the leaders/developers/hackers of the OSx86 community in order to make its boards look better id love if that was true, its hard to be poor Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1431670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulimate Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 I love it. perhaps it's deferred as kind of self add value! P.S. I am taking benefit from 965P-DS3, DSDT just work fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1432028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhlee Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Good news for my GA-EX58 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1432201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 You can also take the relevant bits and patch other models as well. Not that easy, they defined darwin at the acpi table and used it as something we can "if" on the original bios, that would make my job (im talking about my gigabyte mac bios project) easier if that concerned to acpitbl only, the "darwin" os was defined there but maybe also present in other modules to validate this definition, since they give the name they want to the OSs (like they do with windows 2006 and stuff). With these darwin-defined bios, everything is possible, many IFs can be created to do not touch other OSs relevant codes. So, for now, it only helps the reprogramming of these new bios boards. My 0.7e+ code is a complete destruction of original legacy OS support in benefit of APIC based OSs (starting in WinXP, Linux 2.6 and Tiger and going to anything made above them), but it would be perfect to let the old codes there, now that i finally am able to make a acpitbl.bin of any size withouth tearing the bios boot apart. There is much to be studied from other tables (from real macs) yet for myself, but id like to help em on their approach if i could Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1432272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Anubis Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 Not that easy, they defined darwin at the acpi table and used it as something we can "if" on the original bios, that would make my job (im talking about my gigabyte mac bios project) easier if that concerned to acpitbl only, the "darwin" os was defined there but maybe also present in other modules to validate this definition, since they give the name they want to the OSs (like they do with windows 2006 and stuff). With these darwin-defined bios, everything is possible, many IFs can be created to do not touch other OSs relevant codes. So, for now, it only helps the reprogramming of these new bios boards. My 0.7e+ code is a complete destruction of original legacy OS support in benefit of APIC based OSs (starting in WinXP, Linux 2.6 and Tiger and going to anything made above them), but it would be perfect to let the old codes there, now that i finally am able to make a acpitbl.bin of any size withouth tearing the bios boot apart. There is much to be studied from other tables (from real macs) yet for myself, but id like to help em on their approach if i could Hi, this sounds cool. What about other boards like 45-ds3p? Will that be possible that they will have or get darwin defined bioses? Thanks LA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1432847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antol11 Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Where are you guys finding these bioses? I'm not seeing them on their website. Also I am probably going to be buying a Gigabyte motherboard soon. Is my best bet buying one of these P55 boards? I wanted an X58 but it would be nice to know if Gigabyte will update those bioses with Darwin support too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1434229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 X58 + ICH10 = MacPro4,1 perfect if they have a darwin defined bios on that MCH and ICH.... woooo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1434236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Wish my X58A-UD5 even worked half as well as my old Asus P5Q with Snow Leopard without any cpus=1 rubbish and kernel panics. Hope a bios update sorts it out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1434361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antol11 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Where are you guys finding these bioses? I'm not seeing them on their website. I think I found were you guys are getting these beta bioses. From the tweaktown forums right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1434560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaViGnAnO Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 looks promising i'll have to look into it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1434775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
light33 Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Good news for GB users...Sad that I don't have GB... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1435180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs0d Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 if this is indeed the case why is AZAL not renamed HDEF ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1435183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 if this is indeed the case why is AZAL not renamed HDEF ? It makes no difference, all that matters is the address and the contents to be matched, the name isnt handled by the OS, it loads the name you give, even if you compile as ABCD instead of azal or HDEF Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1435253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs0d Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 It makes no difference, all that matters is the address and the contents to be matched, the name isnt handled by the OS, it loads the name you give, even if you compile as ABCD instead of azal or HDEF If you want it show on system profiler it needs to be HDEF and it doesnt affect other os's doing that in the bios dsdt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212968-gigabyte-are-making-their-bios-more-hackintosh-friendly/#findComment-1435478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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