Mavericks kernel testing on AMD (formerly Mountain Lion kernel testing on AMD)

[Mohamed Khairy]

Mohamed, we usually set our SATA mode to RAID when we haven't AHCI as an option, since RAID implies AHCI. This workaround has been successfully used in a plethora of old motherboards. I confess i didn't read carefully your posts though: do you want to use RAID as a workaround for AHCI, or do you really want to use RAID for what it is/does?

 

i have two hard disks 500 gb on raid mode for windows and data

and 640 HDD single for osx and ubuntu and storage

 

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so when using windows must be on raid mode

 

but raid mode give me panic under osx

so must change to ACHI or ide to by pass this panic

to me achi mode some times boots and some times still waiting for root

so the stable mode is ice mode using appleatiata.kext ported to snowleopard by andyvand

but this kext may some time rarely stop from working during using osx

 

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so my question is raid mode on yours pc does this panic ?

will picture it now and upload it

[theconnactic]

P.S.: Mohamed, we have a channel for AMD Hackint0shing discussion on irc.osx86.hu: join us at #LegacyKernel!

[Mohamed Khairy]

ok no problem

 

what is the program you use for irc as it is long time from using this chat when there is a development on chameleon for AMD by valv

edit entered chat room only two is on line !!

 

any way this is my panic with raid mode

[spakk]

Mohamed here we treat only Mountain Lion AMD kernel, please

 

delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from S / L / E

maybe your system will boot

 

Mohamed here we treat only Mountain Lion AMD kernel, please

 

delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from S / L / E

maybe your system will boot

 

than start with boot flag -s

[Mohamed Khairy]

Mohamed here we treat only Mountain Lion AMD kernel, please

 

delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from S / L / E

maybe your system will boot

ooops forget to sorry about off topic

appleintelcpupowermanagment is black listed by kernel so it isn't the cause

as i remeber from long time about 3 years nearly on 10.5 the raid mode was working for me on m4a78t-e motherboard

and tried to jump to 10.6 was having panic and confused about cause till discovered that the cause is raid mode

 

so question again is raid mode works for yours ?

[spakk]

Hi, I have a massive problem, I use ML 10.8.0 and I want to update to 10.8.1 and finally 10.8.2.

 

the install, I get the following error message;

 

OS X update can not be installed on this drive. This volume does not meet the prerequisites for this update

 

What can I do? to solve that problem?

 

could it possibly be the problem when booting the modified AMD ML kernel??

 

Hi, I have a massive problem, „!“ I use ML 10.8.0 and I want to update to 10.8.1 and finally 10.8.2.

 

the install, I get the following error message;

 

"OS X Update can't be installed on this disk. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update"

 

What can I do? to solve that problem?

 

could it possibly be the problem when booting the modified Mountain Lion AMD kernel??

[spakk]

I will install the combo update with Pacifist and hope that it will work.

[theconnactic]

My friends, take a look at this link: http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/packages/uct-cern/AliRoot/trunk/Vc/cmake/OptimizeForArchitecture.cmake

 

Please do a search in it with the keywords "ssse3" and "emulated".

 

Post here your impressions, let me know if they match mine.

[SS01]

spakk, you probably shouldn't do that, the connactic kernel is only for 10.8.0

 

you ninja'd me, theconnactic. And wow... if that's what I think it is, our job just got a whole lot easier. What's that source from?

[theconnactic]

Looks like some kind of public server, which i found accidentally when searching for instructions emulation-related content. Let's explore it? I strongly suggest you all to download this page, store in the reading list etc, nothing guarantees that this server won't be closed anytime soon. Lets take this possible opportunity!

[spakk]

spakk, you probably shouldn't do that, the connactic kernel is only for 10.8.0

 

you ninja'd me, theconnactic. And wow... if that's what I think it is, our job just got a whole lot easier. What's that source from?

 

OK

 

Looks like some kind of public server, which i found accidentally when searching for instructions emulation-related content. Let's explore it? I strongly suggest you all to download this page, store in the reading list etc, nothing guarantees that this server won't be closed anytime soon. Lets take this possible opportunity!

 

that would be really cool if it work for AMD Phenom II X6, great work

[VVlasy]

Hello, I readthrough the forum and saw you need a bulldozer tester. I have a fully working intel mac and alot of free time. So if you provide me with a kernel, kexts and boot flags to use I'll get straight to work

[spakk]

I can not see anywhere K10 my friend

 

Here the comparison of AMD CPU microarchitectures:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_CPU_microarchitectures

[theconnactic]

Hello, I readthrough the forum and saw you need a bulldozer tester. I have a fully working intel mac and alot of free time. So if you provide me with a kernel, kexts and boot flags to use I'll get straight to work

 

Great! Do you have a Bulldozer CPU? Which model? I attached the latest beta kernel in this topic, i'll find it for you. Thank you for stepping in!

 

P.S.: Don't forget to join us in Irc, server irc.osx86.hu, room #LegacyKernel

 

P.P.S.: The beta kernel is at the post #118

[VVlasy]

Yes, I have a FX-8120, gtx 560ti which works with chameleon with GraphicsEnabler and my motherboard is Asus sabertooth 990fx so if there would be any problems so we can find out if its caused by the onboard controllers (lan,audio etc.)

[spakk]

ups sorry, Barcelona is included, I was too busy.

[theconnactic]

Try to boot with the flags:

 

connactic archx86_64 npci=0x3000 busratio=18 -f -v

 

Crossing fingers!

 

Again, thank you, VVlasy: good luck!

[VVlasy]

Whats the port to the irc?

 

Edit: when I go to the irc.osx86.hu it redirects me to a forum

 

Edit2: I am in

[spakk]

Looks like some kind of public server, which i found accidentally when searching for instructions emulation-related content. Let's explore it? I strongly suggest you all to download this page, store in the reading list etc, nothing guarantees that this server won't be closed anytime soon. Lets take this possible opportunity!

 

download with http://sitesucker.so.../mac/download�� I suck already ..........

 

 

 

'theconnactic'

I thought you wrote the SSSE Emulator

[ZackehSoul]

Looks like the stuff you found is built on Linux stuff, so that's a start at least.

[theconnactic]

Looks like the stuff you found is built on Linux stuff, so that's a start at least.

 

The ssse3 emulator, if it exists, would be by its own definition platform-agnostic.

 

First, however, we need to find out if the ssse3 in fact exists. It should, because it's implied in the code i posted.

[Brandon Holland]

Been trying to get a Pentium-D to boot ML. Couldn't get anywere with a vanilla kernel. The only kernel I could get to boot was an 10.8.0 atom kernel, but it immediately died with a corecrypto panic related to ssse3. I managed to patch corecrypto to use the non ssse3 versions of the problem functions, but then an integrity test failed (I'm assuming because I modified it) and caused corecrypto to not load. So I patched the integrity test and now all tests pass and corecrypto seems to be happy. Everything seems to work fine now until it tries to start launchd. "Kernel is LP64" is where it stops. It's not frozen, just isn't doing anything (reacts when I pull the usb stick out). I'm assuming that there are more ssse3 instructions causing problems.

 

EDIT:

Removed patch

[ZackehSoul]

The ssse3 emulator, if it exists, would be by its own definition platform-agnostic.

Bah, the word I was looking for was based. So it'd have to be rewritten is my point.

[theconnactic]

NEW BETA KERNEL!

 

Will post the diff later (UPDATE: here it is XNU.diff.zip). Only one change, i added cpu_infop->vector_unit = 6 to the bottom of the if/else that starts at line 424 of MachineRoutines.c.

 

All credits to bholland, it was him that created this workaround.

 

Test it. Post reports and pics. Boot with connatic (yeah, with a typo). connatic.zip

[theconnactic]

P.S.: bholland is working on it too: he's indeed closer than me at this point to make it work. However, his patches target Pentium D 64-bit (hear it, PookyMacMan?), but should be adaptable to AMD somehow. So, good luck and many thanks to him!