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[cdrhoek]

I found this on the other site. Thanks to Okrasit for working this out.

Patch for AMDRadeonX4100.Kext

Find: 48 B8 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 08 00 00 00

Replace: 48 B8 04 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 20 00 00 00



Find: 0F 42 C8 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20

Replace: 90 90 90 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20



Find: E8 49 85 FE FF BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7

Replace: E8 73 02 01 00 BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7


Clover kext patching didn't work. I had to directly patch the kext with a hex editor


Huge improvement in GeekBench compute score and Luxmark score

 

[Fl0r!an]

Nice! I'll leave a link to the original thread here, okrasit definitely deserves credit for figuring that out.

A similar hack should make the Polaris GPUs fly.

 

[Fl0r!an]

A similar hack should make the Polaris GPUs fly.

So let's give it a go (search & replace with hex editor, fix permissions afterwards):

Change number of CU's from 16 to 36:
48 B8 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 08 00 00 00
48 B8 04 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 12 00 00 00

Remove CU limit (didn't alter for P10):
0F 42 C8 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20
90 90 90 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20

Change init function to Ellesmere instead of Baffin:
E8 49 85 FE FF BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7
E8 46 E4 00 00 BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7

Didn't test it, since I don't own any Polaris GPU's. Should unlock full OpenCL capabilities on Polaris 10 cards (RX 480 / 470). Could also crash the system, who knows.

Again, credits to okrasit for the original hack!

Edit: One more thing to test, try setting "PP_DisablePowerContainment" in AMD9500Controller.kext to "1".

 

[Gigamaxx]

So let's give it a go (search & replace with hex editor, fix permissions afterwards):

Change number of CU's from 16 to 36:
48 B8 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 08 00 00 00
48 B8 04 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 12 00 00 00

Remove CU limit (didn't alter for P10):
0F 42 C8 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20
90 90 90 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20

Change init function to Ellesmere instead of Baffin:
E8 49 85 FE FF BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7
E8 46 E4 00 00 BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7

Didn't test it, since I don't own any Polaris GPU's. Should unlock full OpenCL capabilities on Polaris 10 cards (RX 480 / 470). Could also crash the system, who knows.

Again, credits to okrasit for the original hack!

I'll be home in a few hours and will give it a go, sounds awesome, thanks.

I wonder if doing this will eliminate the need to edit the 4100kext ID?

 

[Gigamaxx]

I found this on the other site. Thanks to Okrasit for working this out.

Patch for AMDRadeonX4100.Kext

Find: 48 B8 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 08 00 00 00

Replace: 48 B8 04 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 89 43 54 C7 43 7C 20 00 00 00



Find: 0F 42 C8 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20

Replace: 90 90 90 89 8B 80 00 00 00 44 88 B3 99 00 00 00 44 88 73 20



Find: E8 49 85 FE FF BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7

Replace: E8 73 02 01 00 BE 48 01 00 00 4C 89 F7


Clover kext patching didn't work. I had to directly patch the kext with a hex editor


Huge improvement in GeekBench compute score and Luxmark score

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Very nice, Thank you! I will try to test this tonight.

 

[bailout00]

I would be happy to try this, I have a running Sierra machine with RX 480 via IOPCIMatch edit. What file are you editing inside the Kext exactly?

 

[Gigamaxx]

I would be happy to try this, I have a running Sierra machine with RX 480 via IOPCIMatch edit. What file are you editing inside the Kext exactly?

AMD41200kext. You need to use find and replace options.

 

[bailout00]

I found 2/3 of those strings int he AMDRadeonX4100.kext/MacOS/AMDRadeonX4100 file, rebooting...

 

[bailout00]

Luxmark from 12k to 15k, noticably smoother all around. Valley bench is 40-70 fps, not a huge jump, hard to say for sure if it made a huge difference but I'll give it a shot for a while. As I said, I didn't find that third string anywhere... any ideas there?

 

[Gigamaxx]

Luxmark from 12k to 15k, noticably smoother all around. Valley bench is 40-70 fps, not a huge jump, hard to say for sure if it made a huge difference but I'll give it a shot for a while. As I said, I didn't find that third string anywhere... any ideas there?

Download iHEX and use find replace option. go to edit and choose insert, its default is overwrite but that doesn't allow changes for me for some reason. Overwrite?

Thanks for reporting back, did you get 36 compute units listed in Luxmark?