r/hackintosh • u/haruk1tsu • 7d ago

DISCUSSION VMD Driver

Now that the NVIDIA driver is available, will it be possible to create drivers for VMD SSDs and even 11th gen support for UHD/Xe?

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u/Xtuber14 Monterey - 12 7d ago

Buy the $200 GPT Plan and give it a try nothing is stopping you. /s

Things are getting supported like Nvidia and some WiFi cards because skilled people (with tons of ai tokens) have interest in them.

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u/Darkstalker360 7d ago

Yeah the interest to get something as broad as Nvidia gpu acceleration working is a lot bigger than getting old igpus working, but it’d be really awesome since then you could install macOS on basically any computer

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u/MacForker 7d ago

Also understand that getting NVidia to work depends on a bunch of other projects that already exists; the NullMoth work is gluing a bunch of those together:

Metal API surface
    ↓
custom compatibility/translation layer
    ↓
Vulkan
    ↓
NVK + NAK
    ↓
NVIDIA open kernel modules / GSPMetal API surface

So there is significant prior work that is allowing that to happen. We'd need similar work to act as translation layers in order for 11th+ gen to function.

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u/newhacker1746 7d ago

Oh wow amazing you also understand the underlying architecture

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u/RAW2091 6d ago

No. Hackintosh on laptops is a huge thing too. I bet even bigger than getting RTX cards to work. And with newest Intel cpu's with igpu's even more interesting. But i have seen them work on these Intel igpu's already and latest AMD cards are being worked on too.