Technical Details

Internal Resources

Note

While inernal docs are written specifically for my X1C6, some of it are applicable to KabyLake ThinkPads. And to a lesser extent, different generation Carbon ThinkPads.

1. Explainations of config choices in config.plist: technical/config.plist.md

2. Explaination of ACPI patches: technical/patches.md

3. Keyboard Query Map: technical/keyboard-queries.md

4. Debug EC Queries: technical/EC-queries.md

5. ALC285 Audio Codec Dump: technical/ALC285.md

6. JackSense, EAPD, and AppleALC Patch Explaination: Issue #75/ comment by ghost

External Resources

ACPI, ASL, and Patches

• The patches written for this project are in ASL. Consder reading the ACPI Source Language (ASL) Tutorial v20190625 to get a basic understanding of the patches' code.

Info

The Ubuntu Wiki also has an ACPI Tricks and Tips section.

• 5T33Z0/OC-Little-Translated is the English docs translation of daliansky/OC-little. It is helpful to refer to existing patches when Hackintoshing.

Warning

Some patches within OC-Little can be oudated, badly done, or fragmented because of different patch authors. Consider using this resource only as a reference and basic guide, not a patch repository.

• Consider referencing the MacbookPro14,1 ACPI Dump when trying to understand certain functions within macOS.

Acidanthera Official Docs

• Consider reading Configuration.pdf from the OpenCore release package if you haven't. From there, pay attention to Differences.pdf with everynew OpenCore releases.

• WhateverGreen Intel HD Graphics FAQ: WhateverGreen/Manual/FAQ.IntelHD.en.md

UEFI Secure Boot

It is possible to enable Secure Boot with macOS. Doing so will require custom secure boot keys and signing OpenCore binaries each update. See profzei/Matebook-X-Pro-2018/wiki for a basic getting started guide.

Info

UEFI Secure Boot Explaination: hac-mini-guide/details/secure-boot

Thunderbolt 3

osy has a great write-up of patching Thunderbolt 3 hotplug under macOS. See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.