[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9360 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.x - LTS (Long-Term Support) Guide

[karelson]

Hi,

What is you experience with undervolting?

Any advice on how to do this, if you did this with this XPS (bios 2.6.2)?

 

[livacore]

Off topic, but the DW1820A (BCM4350) works on the XPS 15 (9560) with either AirPortBrcm4360 or AirPortBrcmNIC (not AirPortBrcmNIC-MFG - looks like a debug version). 80 MHz channels work properly with country code #a (set brcmfx-country=#a). Occasional "32KHz LPO Clock not running" panic occurs with AirPortBrcmNIC; it looks like this wasn't present in AirPortBrcm4360, so patching this out should be fine (E8 23 88 D4 FF → 90 90 90 90 90).

Edit: Rebooting from Linux (with the OSS kernel driver brcmfmac) causes WiFi to break in macOS (no networks are found; fixed by a cold boot). Perhaps this might be the same issue 9360 users are experiencing (but without a cold boot fix)?

Problem solved. See POST
M.2 (single-sided type) Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Solution.

Must cold boot is an PCI configuration space register Problem, I'll working on it in the future.

PS: you dont use forum quote, so I cannot receive your POST immediately.

BTW: The diff checker url shows you disassemble AirPortBrcmNIC, but I don't know which disassemble tool would generate those output? Which disassembler do you use? Personally, I only use otool.

 

[RehabMan]

Problem solved. See POST
M.2 (single-sided type) Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Solution.

Link:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/m-2-single-sided-type-wi-fi-bluetooth-solution.251676/

(I don't know why you're spamming without even providing the actual link).

 

[thedigitalnomad]

10.3.5 broke screen lightning on my machine - after rebuilding caches everything worked fine

 

[egore]

10.3.5 broke screen lightning on my machine - after rebuilding caches everything worked fine

Did you in terminal:

sudo kextcache -i /

 

[thedigitalnomad]

Yup

 

[markmark2]

I'm having trouble installing HS. I can boot to the installer screen, but my SSD doesn't show up as a target drive.

I'm using the-darkvoid's clover folder (attached - copied from usb stick).

My SSD is a Hynix 500GB. (PC300 NVMe SK hynix 512GB as per windows system info).

Is it possible that I still need the class-code spoof for the HS installer to recognize the drive?

Also @the-darkvoid the shell64U.efi in your current clover folder on GitHub doesn't contain the setup_var command. I had to rename DVMT.efi to shell64U.efi (as per your instruction in another post) to be able to edit CGF Lock and DVMT values - not sure if it was intentional on your part, but there is no instruction to do so in your readme.

Also, I had to add a boot entry in the bios for my usb stick to be recognized at a boot option. Not sure if this is a common thing or I have a parameter incorrect in my bios settings. I did follow the first post here to configure it, but i haven't gone back to see if I made any errors.

 

[RehabMan]

I'm having trouble installing HS. I can boot to the installer screen, but my SSD doesn't show up as a target drive.

I'm using the-darkvoid's clover folder (attached - copied from usb stick).

My SSD is a Hynix 500GB. (PC300 NVMe SK hynix 512GB as per windows system info).

Is it possible that I still need the class-code spoof for the HS installer to recognize the drive?

Also @the-darkvoid the shell64U.efi in your current clover folder on GitHub doesn't contain the setup_var command. I had to rename DVMT.efi to shell64U.efi (as per your instruction in another post) to be able to edit CGF Lock and DVMT values - not sure if it was intentional on your part, but there is no instruction to do so in your readme.

Also, I had to add a boot entry in the bios for my usb stick to be recognized at a boot option. Not sure if this is a common thing or I have a parameter incorrect in my bios settings. I did follow the first post here to configure it, but i haven't gone back to see if I made any errors.


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Read here regarding special patching for Hynix:
https://github.com/RehabMan/patch-nvme

 

[markmark2]

Read here regarding special patching for Hynix:
https://github.com/RehabMan/patch-nvme

Sorry, I'm trying to wrap my head around what is needed, but I'm still confused.

I need to run patch_nvme.sh directing to config_patches.plist then the resulting kext output goes into Clover/.../Other folder in the USB drive?

And I should run it in terminal from the loaded installer on USB so that it is patching based on the correct OS version?

 

[GovtDoctor]

Just a heads about the quirks of the thunderbolt port eGPU's on the Dell XPS13 9360.

Apparently, the WiFi circuit and Thunderbolt circuits share electricity. When they're both being used, the thunderbolt port will drop out. This is either because there isn't enough electricity to run them both, OR the BIOS or drivers are configured incorrectly. What I do know, is that (under Win10, at least), my external GPU connected to the thunderbolt port works reliably only if the WiFi is turned off! I stupidly didn't think to bookmark the page/website where this was finally discovered, but I can confirm this "solution" works.

As for MacOS, there are additional issues, such as hackintosh thunderbolt functionality issues, and the fact I have an nVidia card instead of AMD, which is what Apple prefers. There are workarounds for real Macbooks, but I'll update you, if I get it working on my XPS13 hackintosh.