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Has anyone tried booting mac os on this ARM PC? https://www.khadas.com/product-page/edge2

  • High-performance Rockchip RK3588S SoC, 8nm lithography process.
  • 2.25GHz Quad Core ARM Cortex-A76 + 1.8GHz Quad Core Cortex-A55.
  • Integrated ARM Mali-G610 MP4 quad-core GPU up to 1GHz.
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You're free to try, possibly using Asahi Linux source code as documentation on how macOS boots on ARM…
Be note that AppleSilicon is NOT a generic ARM platform but a custom design with ARM cores and Apple proprietary controllers and accelerators. Booting a generic OS (Linux) on AppleSilicon is one thing; booting macOS on a generic ARM platform is something different: macOS on ARM likely depends on the custom accelerators and may not run without them.
 
The issue with Apple's ARM chips is that while User Mode (where applications run) is almost certainly just an ordinary ARM64 (Aarch64) implementation, the Supervisor Mode (where the kernel runs) could potentially have extensions to the ISA/Register set which would make it impossible for Apple's operating system to run on an ordinary ARM chip.
 
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bloodline said:
the Supervisor Mode (where the kernel runs) could potentially have extensions to the ISA/Register set which would make it impossible for Apple's operating system to run on an ordinary ARM chip.
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After the past 17 odd years of Intel hackintoshing, I'm certain that Apple has implemented barriers to macOS running on any old ARM chips.
 
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Well, when Apple drops all support for Intel, then I (and hackintoshing) will just be in the realm of "Retro Computing" with all my builds. I won't stop, just because Apple does. Look at OS9 still going strong!
 
etorix said:
You're free to try, possibly using Asahi Linux source code as documentation on how macOS boots on ARM…
Be note that AppleSilicon is NOT a generic ARM platform but a custom design with ARM cores and Apple proprietary controllers and accelerators. Booting a generic OS (Linux) on AppleSilicon is one thing; booting macOS on a generic ARM platform is something different: macOS on ARM likely depends on the custom accelerators and may not run without them.
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Apple only licensees the instruction set not the actual cores or controllers.
 
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