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I know you said this sarcastically. The custom GPU is going to be a huge roadblock to get anything graphical to render. Probably never going to happen. Add: ac
by jeswin 6y ago
I know you said this sarcastically. The custom GPU is going to be a huge roadblock to get anything graphical to render. Probably never going to happen.
Add: actually never say never. Consoles with custom GPUs have been very successfully emulated. So maybe someday.
- londons_explore 6y agoYou don't have to emulate the hardware directly. Since apples kernel is opensource, there's a good chance one could write a kernel driver for another GPU offering a sufficiently compatible interface. Nearly all GPU code will have software rendering fallbacks too, so the driver might just be enough to trigger those fallbacks.
- floatboth 6y agoAt least with the previous versions of macOS you didn't have to do anything special, the software renderer would just work if you don't have a supported GPU.
- my123 6y agoAnd that doesn't change in Big Sur.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoHas anyone ever successfully written a custom GPU driver for macOS? Perhaps there would be more incentive to do so now, but... seems like a pretty massive undertaking. You could of course use the software renderer—I'd guess that probably still exists on Apple Silicon Macs for safe mode and such—but it wouldn't be pleasant... Edit: Well, anyone besides nVidia, I suppose. But they're a big company, not a Hackintosh side project.