Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

[etorix]

This is a VERY long thread... has anyone nailed down a guide for setting up Clover for the Alder Lake CPU's on Z690 mainboards yet?

Compared to the 3300+ pages Golden Build for the Z390 Designare, where a lot of good Thunderbolt things happened, this thread is very short, and an awful lot has been achieved in less than one month. Now topped with a hot new kext to have all cores and hyperthreading.

Congratulations to the Acidanthera team if they manage a complete release of OpenCore 0.7.6 with the matching documentation by tomorrow evening, according to their usual schedule. This might be a bit tight…

For those who want to use Clover, an EFI for MSI Z690 Pro-A can be found at InsanelyMac. No full guide, but at least a confirmation that Clover and SSDT-CPUR-Z690.aml can do it for Alder Lake.

 

[StefanAM]

https://github.com/acidanthera/CpuTopologySync

Core i5-12600K - P-Cores + HyperThreading + E-Cores.

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https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/11426178

I have tried. Used the patch for i9 12900k, ProvideCurrentCpuInfo on/off, SSDT-PLUG-ALT.aml untouched/32 proc./24 proc., disabling/enabling AVX in bios. No succes. For those who want to try, the compiled kext is attached.

 

[vandroiy]

Latest Lilu from master is mandatory!

 

[StefanAM]

Latest Lilu from master is mandatory!

No result. Can you share your EFI, to see differences.

 

[vandroiy]

No result. Can you share your EFI, to see differences.

 

[StefanAM]

Can't make it work. But thank you!

 

[CaseySJ]

Latest Lilu from master is mandatory!

Can't make it work. But thank you!

I'm also unable to boot with latest Lilu and CpuTopologySync (using my local compiled build) -- and kernel patch. Combinations I've tried:

• Fake CPU ID (Cpu1Data and Cpu1Mask) -- this is still needed
• ProvideCurrentCpuInfo enabled/disabled -- no difference

Perhaps kext order matters? I'm currently injecting CpuTopologySync immediately after Lilu.

Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

Has anyone successfully run the Z690 on Mojave? Sometimes I need to use an older music card that doesn't work with Catalina anymore.

www.tonymacx86.com

Update: It works!

 

[StefanAM]

I'm also unable to boot with latest Lilu and CpuTopologySync (using my local compiled build) -- and kernel patch. Combinations I've tried:

• Fake CPU ID (Cpu1Data and Cpu1Mask) -- this is still needed
• ProvideCurrentCpuInfo enabled/disabled -- no difference

Perhaps kext order matters? I'm currently injecting CpuTopologySync immediately after Lilu.

Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

Has anyone successfully run the Z690 on Mojave? Sometimes I need to use an older music card that doesn't work with Catalina anymore.

www.tonymacx86.com

I tried all the ways. Same result. He is not using ProvideCurrentCpuInfo, different Cpu1Data (it works for me but same result) and CpuTopologySync immediately after Lilu.

 

[CaseySJ]

I tried all the ways. Same result. He is not using ProvideCurrentCpuInfo, different Cpu1Data (it works for me but same result) and CpuTopologySync immediately after Lilu.

** It Works! **​

Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

Has anyone successfully run the Z690 on Mojave? Sometimes I need to use an older music card that doesn't work with Catalina anymore.

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[CaseySJ]

From Page 3 of this thread, Nov 4:

@CaseySJ is z690 hackintosh doable with the E cores present? thoughts on it?

Dec 5: Yes its doable with all P-cores, E-cores, and HT enabled. But macOS scheduler still treats all cores the same; it won't schedule more demanding and less demanding tasks to the most appropriate processor.