dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher 0.1.8

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0.1.8

• Fix Kernel Panic in Big Sur and Monterey
• Increment binaries:
  • Lilu (1.5.4 rolling - 06-15-2021)

0.1.7

• Add FireWire Boot Support for Catalina and newer
• Add NVMe firmware support for older models (ie. MacPro3,1)
  • OpenCore must be stored on a bootable volume (ie. USB or SATA)
• Fix Thunderbolt Ethernet support on MacBookAir4,x
• Fix XHCI hangs on pre-2012 Machines
  • XHCI boot support dropped due to instability
• Add beta macOS Monterey Support
  • Fix iMac13,x sleep support
  • Add support for following models:
    • iMac14,4
    • iMac15,1
    • MacBook8,1
    • MacBookAir6,1
    • MacBookAir6,2
    • MacBookPro11,1
    • MacBookPro11,2
    • MacBookPro11,3
• Increment binaries:
  • OpenCore (0.7.0 release - 06-07-2021)
  • AirportBrcmFixup (2.1.3 rolling - 06-08-2021)
  • AppleALC (1.6.2 rolling - 06-08-2021)
  • CPUFriend (1.2.4 rolling - 06-08-2021)
  • Lilu (1.5.4 rolling - 06-11-2021)
  • NVMeFix (1.0.9 rolling - 06-12-2021)
  • WhateverGreen (1.5.1 rolling - 06-08-2021)
  • RestrictEvents (1.0.3 rolling - 06-11-2021)
  • Apple Binaries (0.0.18 release - 06-12-2021)
  • MouSSE (0.95 release - 06-08-2021)
  • SidecarFixup (1.0.2 rolling - 06-11-2021)
• Fix SSE4,2 Emulation
• Fix Sidecar and CPU renaming support in macOS Monterey
• Add AirPlay support to older Models
• Add Intel HD4000 Acceleration
  • Big thanks to Jackluke, EduCovas, DhinakG, MykolaG!
• Add DebugEnhancer for better macOS Monterey logs
  • DebugEnhancer (1.0.3 rolling - 06-08-2021)
• Add TeraScale 2 Graphics Acceleration to Big Sur
  • User configurable, those prone to seizures are recommended to avoid or have another setup the machine due to initial colour strobing before forcing Million Colours on the display with SwitchResX or ResXtreme

Hello everyone, we're proud to release OpenCore Legacy Patcher v0.1.8! And with it, work in progress macOS Monterey support!

Currently Monterey support is very much in active development with many previously working hardware in Big Sur now broken. However we've put great effort into restoring these patches with the aid of Jackluke, EduCovas, DhinakG and Khronokernel by re-introducing Intel HD 4000 iGPU support.

Please do note that with macOS Monterey, Intel HD 4000 iGPU users will need to have their root volumes patched to achieve full acceleration meaning no more FileVault or SIP support. 2012 iMacs with supported Nvidia GPUs are however excluded as they can have their internal iGPUs disabled with little consequence.

Additionally, other legacy hardware has been dropped from Monterey. This includes the following hardware:

• All BRCM2046-based Bluetooth cards no longer function
• All Mojave and older era wireless Cards no longer function
  • BCM94322, BCM94328 and Atheros series included
  • BCM943224, BCM94331, BCM94360 and BCM943602 still work great with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

For more information regarding the Bluetooth and wireless issues such as models affected, we recommend checking the macOS 12 MacRumors thread (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-12-monterey-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2299557/). Please remember this is still beta 1 of macOS Monterey and that we've implemented very early beta support. Things can change at any time so please be respectful and understand us developers are still pouring hours into getting all your old machines up and running again.

Additionally we've also added FireWire boot support, courtesy of internetzel's testing, as well as TeraScale 2 Acceleration in Big Sur, courtesy of ASentientBot!

We've got quite a jam packed build, hope everyone enjoys the new release!