Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 00:59 UTC
Despite reports to the contrary, current Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard builds do not support the Intel Atom processor. The report that support had returned is a fake, and the most recent build 10C540 still does not support the Atom processor. C'est tout.
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RE: Won't stop anyone for long
by lemur2 on Mon 9th Nov 2009 10:53
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I can't imagine this putting any kind of stop to the hackintosh efforts on netbooks. If support was removed from the kernel, well Darwin is open source and could simply be recompiled with Atom support. If instead the os checks for a supported processor at boot time, the boot loader could pass it a false string relatively easily though some care would be needed in this case to avoid serious issues. Still, if Darwin need be recompiled it does mean back to the old system of using modified updates.
It is not just the kernel, it is also all of the libraries and even applications that must support the processor architecture. The entire software stack.
RE[2]: Won't stop anyone for long
by Matty on Mon 9th Nov 2009 11:53
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RE[2]: Won't stop anyone for long
by darknexus on Mon 9th Nov 2009 12:45
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I can't imagine this putting any kind of stop to the hackintosh efforts on netbooks. If support was removed from the kernel, well Darwin is open source and could simply be recompiled with Atom support. If instead the os checks for a supported processor at boot time, the boot loader could pass it a false string relatively easily though some care would be needed in this case to avoid serious issues. Still, if Darwin need be recompiled it does mean back to the old system of using modified updates.