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0 pointsjeswin5y ago0 comments

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.

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londons_explore5y ago

You 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.

Wowfunhappy5y ago

Has 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.

floatboth5y ago

At 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.

my1235y ago

And that doesn't change in Big Sur.

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