[Release] macOS Sequoia 15.4

[XanthraX]

17 hours ago, Matgen84 said:

 

Yes, it's for Asus p8z77 (Ivybridge, SMBIOS macPro6,1). I can boot with Opencore 1.0.5 nightly. The issue concerns Sequoia.

 

I guess the problem is with OCLP 2.3.0: root patches are applied for Intel HD4000, Nividia Kepler and Modern Network. But OCLP can't download latest MetallibSupportPkg for 3802, because Broadcom is not patched at first stage. So when I reboot: the Sequoia desktop is unusable, can't revert vida patches and download new metallibSupportPkg !

 

Any ideas ! 

Well, I could upgrade my both Hackintoshes, Sonoma and Sequoia with no problems, but when I upgraded my MacBook Pro Mid 2015 (MacBookPro11,4 - Intel Graphics), OCLP 2.3.0 broke the video. All I could see was a dark gray screen with hexagons or octogons instead of the windows. I booted it in Safe Mode, I reverted the patch, then I removed OCLP (/Library/Applications Support/Dortania). I installed OCLP 2.2.0, root patched and voila, it works. My only issue is how to stop OCLP 2.2.0 to ask for update at every turn on. I will check in their forums. OCLP 2.3.0 works only with Radeon video chips. I hope they will fix it as soon as possible. 

Edited April 2 by XanthraX

[verdazil]

5 minutes ago, XanthraX said:

My only issue is how to stop OCLP 2.2.0 to ask for update at every turn on?

You can simply uninstall the app completely. The patches will not be affected and will continue to work.

[XanthraX]

1 minute ago, verdazil said:

You can simply uninstall the app completely. The patches will not be affected and will continue to work.

Thank you. It is a good idea. 

[XanthraX]

I see they released version 2.3.1. I will try it. Worked well on MacBook Air 11 inch 2015. 

Edited April 2 by XanthraX

[Matgen84]

3 hours ago, XanthraX said:

Well, I could upgrade my both Hackintoshes, Sonoma and Sequoia with no problems, but when I upgraded my MacBook Pro Mid 2015 (MacBookPro11,4 - Intel Graphics), OCLP 2.3.0 broke the video. All I could see was a dark gray screen with hexagons or octogons instead of the windows. I booted it in Safe Mode, I reverted the patch, then I removed OCLP (/Library/Applications Support/Dortania). I installed OCLP 2.2.0, root patched and voila, it works. My only issue is how to stop OCLP 2.2.0 to ask for update at every turn on. I will check in their forums. OCLP 2.3.0 works only with Radeon video chips. I hope they will fix it as soon as possible. 

 

How do you boot in Safe mode using Opencore ? Let me know please. Thanks.

[Cyberdevs]

12 minutes ago, Matgen84 said:

 

How do you boot in Safe mode using Opencore ? Let me know please. Thanks.

I guess if you press and hold shift key in the picker then select the macOS version you want to boot into, macOS will boot in safe mode, You might need to enable PollAppleHotKeys under Misc->Boot in the config or just use -x boot arg.

[verdazil]

12 minutes ago, Matgen84 said:

How do you boot in Safe mode using Opencore ? Let me know please. Thanks.

Add -x bootarg + reset NVRAM

[XanthraX]

1 hour ago, Cyberdevs said:

I guess if you press and hold shift key in the picker then select the macOS version you want to boot into, macOS will boot in safe mode, You might need to enable PollAppleHotKeys under Misc->Boot in the config or just use -x boot arg.

This is right. I don't let the picker visible. Hold shift > boots in safe mode, hold option it will show the picker even you set it to not be shown, hold cmd+v it boots in verbose mode. But in Hackintosh it boots in safe mode, only if you use the internal graphic card (Intel from the CPU). If you use the secondary graphic card and have "agdpmod=pikera" as bootarg you cannot boot in safe mode, because the macOS boots in safe mode and displays only from the internal graphic.

 

 

[Matgen84]

1 hour ago, Cyberdevs said:

I guess if you press and hold shift key in the picker then select the macOS version you want to boot into, macOS will boot in safe mode, You might need to enable PollAppleHotKeys under Misc->Boot in the config or just use -x boot arg.

 

Thanks. PollAppleHotKeys  no more exists in Sample.plist or SampleCustom.plist (Opencore repo). Is It embedded ?

 

Now,  my issue is solved:

• Reinstall Sequoia 15.4 form bootable USB
• Download from my Z390 config, metalibSupportPKG 15.4 (Dortania repo) and install it on Ivybridge (SMBIOS macPro6,1)
• Do the same for OpencoreLegacyPatcher 2.3.1.
• Root patches Intel graphic, Nvidia Kepler and Modern wireless
• Reboot
• Voilà. My old Ivybridge run Sequoia 15.4 😊

 

Thank you for those who would wanted to help me.

[deeveedee]

7 hours ago, verdazil said:

You can simply uninstall the app completely. The patches will not be affected and will continue to work.

@XanthraX and @verdazil you can also delete the Open Core Legacy Patcher plists from /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons.  I always delete these after applying OCLP post-install patches so that I'm not botherered with OCLP auto-updates/messages.

[J Lamp]

On my Z590 and Z490 builds I had to reset NVRam again in OC to get Bluetooth back. This seems like it's becoming the new norm with updates, but at least it's a simple fix.

 

On my x299 build using Clover my AQC-107 is not recognized again after the update. I'm still looking into that...

 

EDIT: I can see that Apple VTD is loaded in IOReg. Extracting the DMAR table everything looks fine. With Clover Configurator not working under the latest version this is a bit of a PITA to troubleshoot. I'm going to roll back to the last version and post about this in the Aquantia support thread. When I find a solution I will update this with a link to the fix.

 

FIXED: I have not needed this before, but it would seem that as of 15.4 I needed to enable the "ForceAquantiaEthernet" quirk. Problem solved!

Edited April 2 by J Lamp
Solution

[strangeron]

AR9285 works with OCLP😂

 

[sok5]

Update my HP z840 from 15.3.2 to 15.4 without issue

 

[Slice]

For those who have the problem with high CPU usage by PerfPowerServices there is a solution with new VirtualSMC and FakeSMC.

https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/FakeSMC3_with_plugins/releases/download/251/FakeSMC.kext-356.zip

Thanks to Vit9696.

 

[Irish_Man]

All went well

 

[XanthraX]

On 4/5/2025 at 5:35 AM, Slice said:

For those who have the problem with high CPU usage by PerfPowerServices there is a solution with new VirtualSMC and FakeSMC.

https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/FakeSMC3_with_plugins/releases/download/251/FakeSMC.kext-356.zip

Thanks to Vit9696.

 

Is it a new VirtualSMC in this package? All I found is only a FakeSMC.kext in zip. Thank you anyway.

[Anto65]

https://dortania.github.io/builds/?product=VirtualSMC&viewall=true&version=1.3.6&sha=03ff31014d1e0388b2714479add66b01817f5362

[XanthraX]

Thank you both @Slice and @Anto65. I will try today. Obviously, not both in the same time. First VirtualSMC. 

Edited April 7 by XanthraX

[miliuco]

Updated to 15.4 with the only issue of full update since I was using OCLP for the Fenvi.

revpatch=sbvmm in boot args needed (MacPro7,1 SMBIOS).

OpenCore 1.0.4.

I had the well-known PerfPowerServices issue with high CPU utilization, which was resolved by upgrading to VirtualSMC version 1.3.6 (see link by @Anto65).

 

FakeSMC 356 from the link by @Slice works fine too.

Note that corpnwet has a fork of RestrictEvents for this same issue. On the one hand, it seems logical to continue assigning RestrictEvents to block unwanted processes (the user can block the process or not) but, on the other hand, the kext must be compiled since only the Xcode project is offered. It's easy to compile by running the script at the end of the post (kext is in RestrictEvents/build/Release).

Anyway, both kexts separately do their job.

 

#!/bin/sh
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

git clone https://github.com/acidanthera/Lilu
git clone https://github.com/acidanthera/MacKernelSDK
git clone https://github.com/corpnewt/RestrictEvents

cd MacKernelSDK
git pull

cd ../Lilu
git pull
ln -s ../MacKernelSDK MacKernelSDK
xcodebuild
xcodebuild -configuration Debug

cd ../RestrictEvents
git pull
ln -s ../MacKernelSDK MacKernelSDK
ln -s ../Lilu/build/Debug/Lilu.kext Lilu.kext
xcodebuild

 

 

 

Edited April 7 by miliuco

[miliuco]

For those who don't want OCLP enabled after applying the root patch, the easiest way is to disable it in System Settings -> General -> Startup Items.This does not prevent reapplying the patch when necessary.

 

Spoiler

 

Those who don't want the app to notify you about updates can do so in the app itself -> Settings -> App.

 

Spoiler

 

[Matgen84]

@miliuco Hi Bro.

PerfPowerServices doesn't appear at all in Monitor Activity on my old IvyBridge (SMBIOS macPro6,1, Opencore 1.0.4, OCLP latest)

Do you know why ! Please.

[eSaF]

41 minutes ago, Matgen84 said:

@miliuco Hi Bro.

PerfPowerServices doesn't appear at all in Monitor Activity on my old IvyBridge (SMBIOS macPro6,1, Opencore 1.0.4, OCLP latest)

Do you know why ! Please.

Are you sure Bro?

[deeveedee]

@Matgen84 After opening Activity Monitor, enable "All Processes" under the View menu.

 

[Matgen84]

@eSaF @deeveedee Thanks. I got it, now.

 

[mnfesq]

On 4/4/2025 at 7:35 PM, Slice said:

For those who have the problem with high CPU usage by PerfPowerServices there is a solution with new VirtualSMC and FakeSMC.

https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/FakeSMC3_with_plugins/releases/download/251/FakeSMC.kext-356.zip

Thanks to Vit9696.

 

 

Wow! I did not even realize that PerfPowerServices was using just over 60% of my CPU resources. Updating VirtualSMC to 1.3.6 lowered the CPU usage on my laptop to no more than 11% and mostly 0-1%, and lowered my CPU temperature from about 63 degrees Centigrade to about 50 degrees.  What a great performance boost that was! Thank you @Slice for pointing it out and big thanks to @vit9696 for your work that I could not even begin to understand.

Edited April 7 by mnfesq