semthex Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I wanted to give you a brief overview about latest developments of the new kernel and it's current state. It got a bit lost in all the other threads so here is a summary. For further infos and howtos about the kernel visit the beta faq page: http://semthex.freeflux.net/nebukadnezar-faq/ VMWare support VMware is supported on AMD without necessary boot options, with Intel machines you need to use -vmware bootoption to force the AMD/Vmware code to be run. FULL AMD support with GUI The new kernel provides everything needed to run a full featured OSx86 on a AMD SSE3 compatible processor. To run GUI you need to get the rufus patched bins, they include special opcode for a function in kernel which enables the AMD support in them. free FSB selection Because of the heavy demand from the overclocking and AMD64 people I added a free selectable fsb option and skipped the conecpt of only common values as bootflags. You can still use the old ones if you have them already in use. CPU autodetection Kernel detect now if you run AMD or INTEL and will select proper code for each manufactor. No need for diffrent kernels anymore. Multiple Core Problems fixed Some machine crashed because of wrong detection of cores available, this issue has been fixed. Video Problem solved We solved a minor issue with video playback on AMD but this is still experimental. This is going straight to final version! SSE2 support is work in progress, but I am sorry it will take a few days to be finished since it is not that easy it sounds. Please have abit patience, it will be done If you want to catch latest news on kernel development, need support or want betas, feel free to join the crew and me on IRC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firejdl Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 awesome semthex, thanks for all your hard work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Thanks semthex, we'll keep updated at IRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisam Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Kudos to Semthex. You are my hero !! Nebukadnezar نبوخذ نصر Is my old ancestors since i am from Iraq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 5, 2006 Author Share Posted November 5, 2006 Thanks for all teh applauds. Really nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaxx32000 Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Thanks semthex! Nice work again! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajkosto Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Thanks semthex you're the greates man ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtreme571 Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Thank You for the great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plas Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I dropped the new kernel onto Jas's dvd to see if i could get it installing in vmware. It loads up to a point then stops after loading a kext and sits there. Guess i will have to wait for a patch for the dvd. Thanks for the work so far semthex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelhydra Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I dropped the new kernel onto Jas's dvd to see if i could get it installing in vmware. It loads up to a point then stops after loading a kext and sits there.Guess i will have to wait for a patch for the dvd. Thanks for the work so far semthex Thanks for everything semthex. In the next release could you fix the restart issue. That is when restarting osx it gets to a point, throws the "mach_reboot" message and no restart. I know we used to edit the 10.4.7 to get this fixed but the same trick does not work here. If you don't have the time for this please tell us what should we edit to fix this. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathdude1284 Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Thanks for everything so far Semthex...I'm glad to hear that SSE2 is coming along... mathdude1284 ps. how com your so quiet at hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom H Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Good work semthex! It seems that source-level kernel mods plus Omni's insight about faking the EFI keys for video drivers will allow very powerful support for BIOS-based x86 machines. I wish Apple would introduce a competitively priced 2/4 core, single CPU desktop machine with DDR2 memory. Then those running Mac OS X would have lots of good choices, regardless of their bugdet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasys Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 superb. i like the sounds of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastyhome Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Donate to semthex! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 Good work semthex! It seems that source-level kernel mods plus Omni's insight about faking the EFI keys for video drivers will allow very powerful support for BIOS-based x86 machines. I wish Apple would introduce a competitively priced 2/4 core, single CPU desktop machine with DDR2 memory. Then those running Mac OS X would have lots of good choices, regardless of their bugdet. Thank you Tom :-) It's really nice to get congrats from you. Sad to say I don't think apple will change their curernt politics taht fast, but we will see, since this project left a huge impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisam Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Tom H I agree with you. Here in the middle east we don't have Apple store even and if you were talking about high price for the mac in the US then here we have to double it. it is sad and it seems that apple has forgotten us. I really wish this project make them think again about all the customers who wants to run Mac OS X without having to buy their hardware. See how windows dominates the market because of this closed to the world strategy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Glad to hear progress is being made on SSE2, and the new feature list for this kernel sounds great. Thanks so much for all the hard work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Is it possible to make sse3 emulation with "3DNow" features on AMD cpus? I think 3DNow is closer to sse3 than sse2 is but im no expert... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixblicker Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 @coolbits: using 3DNow would be a bad idea. First of all you would kick out all Intel SSE2-only processors like my Pentium M, AND YOU DON'T WANT THIS! ;-) And SSE2 and SSE3 are working on the same CPU-registers. By using SSE2 instructions you can directly access the data for the missing SSE3 instruction. @semthex: THANKS FOR ALL THE EFFORT AND HARD WORK! Once the SSE3-emulation is done I will donate!!! It's much cheaper than bying a Mac ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelhydra Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Thanks for everything semthex.In the next release could you fix the restart issue. That is when restarting osx it gets to a point, throws the "mach_reboot" message and no restart. I know we used to edit the 10.4.7 to get this fixed but the same trick does not work here. If you don't have the time for this please tell us what should we edit to fix this. Thanks again Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukaniko Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Ah great news!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 Thank you. The clock is close to work now :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 free FSB selectionBecause of the heavy demand from the overclocking and AMD64 people I added a free selectable fsb option and skipped the conecpt of only common values as bootflags. You can still use the old ones if you have them already in use. I have some questions about this from an overclocking standpoint. Does this actually change the FSB frequency? Does this work like the "clockgen" program on Windows? Is it possible to use this to overclock the FSB on regular Macintoshes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 No it does not affect the real FSB spead set in bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zu1u Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 whoo hoo can't wait for an all new 10.4.8 for amd w sse2.. great job and thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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