macOS Golden Gate 27 on Unsupported Macs Discussion

[Muhammad Arham]

In my opinion, Golden Gate support for Intel Macs is nearly impossible even if contains x86 for Rossetta purposes... It's bootloader uses same system as iPhone and iPad so it is very sophisticated... If we somehow got access to the source code of the iBoot, we cannot inject kexts to load Intel drivers. It could be possible... I have seen the update aswell on my old OCLP but it will never allow us to download...

 

[Homme]

All system was recompiled as arm64e version, it's impossible to do. Intel is dead forever.

Except Rosetta and Thunderbolt but Rosetta will be gone in macOS 28 and Thunderbolt will be there forever ( luckily Apple co developed it with Intel)

 

[sevoneone]

Take an incredibly powerful AI Model like Claude Mythos and a stack of money to burn inside a datacenter and set it to task reverse-engineering and decompiling every Apple Silicon binary in the OS plus the Kernel/Bootloader and recompiling it all for x86... I would not be surprised if it pulled it off after enough time.

 

[Mystere65]

Prendete un modello di intelligenza artificiale incredibilmente potente come Claude Mythos e una montagna di soldi da spendere all'interno di un data center e assegnategli il compito di decompilare e decompilare ogni singolo binario Apple Silicon del sistema operativo, incluso il kernel/bootloader, per poi ricompilare il tutto per x86... Non mi sorprenderei se, dopo un tempo sufficiente, ci riuscisse.

In theory, an AI with unlimited resources can map any logic flow. In practice, however, moving from an Apple Silicon (ARM64) architecture to an x86 x64 architecture isn't a simple code translation; it requires reinventing entire missing hardware components.

 

[adnbek]

And who's supposed to do that?

Certainly not him:

Epilogue - ramblings

A retrospective on the past few years, and what comes next

dhinakg.github.io

Certainly this is one of the reasons why:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2058624069399126379