Success (kinda) Coffee Lake 8700 10.12.6

Build specs:

  • i7-8700 / HD 630 Graphics
  • Asrock Z370M/ac mITX
  • WDS250G1B0B (M.2 SATA)
  • 8GB ram for now

The 10.13.0 installer kernel panics; I couldn't get this to work for now. I may revisit this later to see if I can fix it.

I could not find a working 10.12.6 installer, so I used the 10.12.0 that I had to make a boot device. This necessitates setting SMBIOS to iMac17,1 and FakeCPUID to Skylake as Kaby Lake is not supported until 10.12.6.

I then immediately updated Lilu.kext and IntelGraphicsFixup.kext, upgraded to 10.12.6 with the combo installer, and changed FakeCPUID to a Kaby Lake and iMac18,3

With this I was able to get graphics kinda working. com.apple.driver.AppleIntelKBLGraphicsFramebuffer gets loaded (but that's the only one with KBL in its name) but GLview shows Apple Software Render and I have no transparency. I would really like to get this fixed.

I kinda wish I would have just gone 200-series and 7700k, but hopefully in the future the bugs will get worked out.

I'd be happy to hear from anyone with integrated graphics knowledge, or worst-case, suggestions on a cheap, compatible GPU.

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