OpenCorePkg

> I don't really care what Apple does on this regard, they were always doing things differently. IIRC, even Macs that supported EFI, only supported EFI 1.1, not 2.0, no? Yup, but as long as you got an original Apple GPU that's enough to just stick a Windows or Linux USB stick and you can install straight from the stick. "Normal" PCI GPUs have to be reflashed with a GOP blob [1] so that Apple's EFI implementation can work with it. Personally, I just went and installed OpenCore once and that's it. [1] https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Stagi...

Here's a large example with nested arrays and dicts, integers, strings, etc: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/master/Docs/...

Modern Hackintoshes have moved to using OpenCore as the bootloader, which is open source: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg The older standard was Clover, also open source: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader

https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Utili... can download diagnostic and recovery images.

Apple Internet recoveryOS images are served over plain http, on purpose. The macrecovery.py script used by Quickemu uses http¹, though the server supports https. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/recoveryos-and-diag... > When the internet recovery and diagnostic modes were added to Mac computers in 2011, it was decided that it would be better to use the simpler HTTP transport, and handle content authentication using the chunklist mechanism, rather than implement the more complicated HTTPS functionality in the UEFI firmware, and thus increase the firmwareʼs attack surface. ¹https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/4a740c3f256e... [edit] Added macrecovery.py info

It can be daunting to look at a popular project in it's current state. Thankfully with Open Source Projects you can go back in time and see how the code evolved. Here's [1] the first few commits to OpenCore. Much more approachable and inspiring. [1] https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/commits/master?af...

I feel you. Sometimes I browse projects on GitHub and I'm astonished by what people can do and I can't. Example, OpenCore[0], a famous bootloader in the Hackintosh scene. How can people even start to code this.. Awewome work, awesome people. [0]: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg

I just built a new hackintosh with opencore, and compared to clover, it was so much nicer. The documentation [0] is excellent; I'm able to grok what each option does rather than just guessing. It also feels so much less janky than clover did. Better filevault support, faster, leave SIP on, etc. It's also better in that one can avoid polluting /L/E /S/L/E, which will also allow users to keep running kexts even after Apple deprecates third-party ones. [0]: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/master/Docs/...

OpenCore loads kexts differently (sorry for lack of technical explanation) so you can keep SIP enalbed, in addition to other advantages over Clover or other methods. More info below. OpenCore Reference Manual https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/master/Docs/... OpenCore Vanilla Guide https://khronokernel.github.io/Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guid...