I've been following with interest the thread in the MacPro forum about running Mavericks on unsupported EFI32 machines.
A change of the boot.efi file is all it takes to run an otherwise unmodified copy of Mavericks on older Mac Pros.
I no longer have a MacPro 1,1 and my latest machines already run under 10.9. But I still have a late 2007 MacBook running 10.7 which cannot run the latest versions of iLife/iWork and is increasingly out-of-sync with my other Macs and iOS devices.
I understand I could install Mavericks with the above trick but would have very slow unaccelerated graphics, because of the lack of 64 bit driver for the Intel X3100.
Is this something that the open source community could realistically address? I.e. could a third-party 64 bit graphics driver be developped? Or would the OpenGL 2.1 limitations of the chip make it a no-go for mavericks?
A change of the boot.efi file is all it takes to run an otherwise unmodified copy of Mavericks on older Mac Pros.
I no longer have a MacPro 1,1 and my latest machines already run under 10.9. But I still have a late 2007 MacBook running 10.7 which cannot run the latest versions of iLife/iWork and is increasingly out-of-sync with my other Macs and iOS devices.
I understand I could install Mavericks with the above trick but would have very slow unaccelerated graphics, because of the lack of 64 bit driver for the Intel X3100.
Is this something that the open source community could realistically address? I.e. could a third-party 64 bit graphics driver be developped? Or would the OpenGL 2.1 limitations of the chip make it a no-go for mavericks?