/HP-laptop-15s-fq1034nl-ice-lake

This repository contains the necessary files and information to successfully boot macOS on this laptop.

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HP laptop 15s-FQ1034NL Ice Lake - MacBookPro16,2

This repository contains the necessary files and information to successfully boot macOS on this laptop.

  • Bootloader version: OpenCore 0.8.8
  • SMBIOS: MacBookPro16,2
  • Kexts version: everything up-to-date with the latest version (check the links below)
  • macOS version: Monterey - Release channel

monterey

neofetch flex

neofetch-flex

Install brew for this, and brew install neofetch

Specs

Component Brand
CPU Intel Core i7-1065G7 @ 1.5 GHz
iGPU Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 - Ice Lake
RAM 32GB SODIMM 2400MHz
Storage WD SN530 512GB
Audio Realtek ALC236 - layout-id 13
WiFi Card Intel 9560NGW - 8086:34F0
BT Card 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak - 8087:0AAA
OS macOS Monterey 12.6.2 (21G320)
BIOS F25 Rev.A - from .bin 086C8
Mobo name HP 86C9
Pretty PCI overview

hackintool

This tool is obtainable here

Important notes

  • In the config.plist, section PlatformInfo > Generic, the following fields are currently edited with "CHANGEME" in order to force the user to generate his own serials. Refer to this guide to know how.

    • MLB
    • ROM
    • SystemSerialNumber
    • SystemUUID

  • For those of you who are using a SATA SSD for macOS 11 Big Sur and newer it might be necessary to spoof HP infamous RAID controller 8086:282A with another ID, a solution can be found here, this is a better alternative and does not require the manual injection of CtlnaAHCIPort.kext is not required anymore

  • OpenCanopy is fully configured with the correct theme from acidanthera, (GoldenGate) but if you want to disable this you should edit the config.plist and change PickerMode from External to Builtin or disable ShowPicker entirely.

How to get this laptop to boot macOS flawlessly

I highly suggest to read the OpenCore guide.

ACPI

  • For the ACPI configuration which might be the trickiest one, you can use the ones I have in EFI/OC/ACPI if you have the same BIOS as mine (e.g. the HP 14s-dq1013tu has the same BIOS according to ferdysopian.

  • Special thanks to dreamwhite for his help on fixing the trackpad (SSDT-TPD0 and SSDT-GPIO) and ACPI USB map (SSDT-USB) alongside all ACPI hotpatching

Drivers

Must have to boot any macOS version from USB:

  • HfsPlus.efi - required for HFS support in UEFI - check this method to create the HFS-formatted USB thumb drive

    Additional backgroud about the origins of this driver

    This driver can be found either in the EFI/OC/Drivers folder of this repository, in acidanthera/OcBinaryData or here if you want to extract it youself

  • OpenRuntime.efi - (bundled in OpenCore package)

  • ResetNvramEntry.efi - (bundled in OpenCore package) to add NVRAM reset functionality.

Additional drivers for cosmetic stuff:

  • AudioDxe.efi - for Boot Chime support in UEFI environment (already enabled)
  • OpenCanopy.efi (bundled in OpenCore package) for Mac-like GUI support in picker

Kexts

BIOS offsets (F21 Rev. A / and F23 Rev. A / F.25 Rev. A are unchanged)

Note: The BIOSes present in the directory Misc/Extracted\ sp132835/ are multiple bin files, and the one made for this laptop is precisely this one

Please note that even though I've listed here the offsets with setup_var (as modgrubshell.efi would require) I had to use RU.efi to edit these. A nice guide on how to use RU.efi can be found here

  • CFG Lock = setup_var 0x43 0x0 (Disabled) (Section CpuSetup)

  • DVMT Pre-Allocated = setup_var 0xA4 0x2 (64MB) (or 0x4 for 128MB) (Section SaSetup)

  • DVMT Total Gfx Mem = setup_var 0xA5 0x3 (MAX) (Section SaSetup)

  • SATA Controller(s) = setup_var 0x5B 0x1 (Enabled) - if you have the cable inside (Section Setup)

  • SATA Mode = setup_var 0x5C 0x0 (AHCI) - this should be on zero by default (Section Setup)

  • GPIO Interrupt = setup_var 0x2CA 0x0 (Section Setup)

You can use RU.efi or setup_var.efi to configure these settings. Check this utility who was born from datasone's hard work to unlock them all by loading OpenShell.efi from F9 menu (present in EFI/OC/Tools alongside setup_var.efi and RU.efi)

Commands to run with setup_var.efi

Note: these commands are only available in UEFI shell and the tool can be found here

setup_var.efi 0x43 0x0 -n CpuSetup # CFG Lock disabled
setup_var.efi 0xA4 0x2 -n SaSetup # DVMT Pre-Allocated to 64MB
setup_var.efi 0xA5 0x3 -n SaSetup # (MAX)
setup_var.efi 0x2CA 0x0 -n Setup # Trackpad GPIO mode

This way, if you applied these settings correctly either with RU.efi or setup_var.efi:

  • You won't need framebuffer-fbmem and framebuffer-stolenmem properties under DeviceProperties for the graphics patch
  • You won't need AppleXCPMCfgLock or similar kernel quirks

AAPL,ig-platform-id choice

Unfortunately even after setting the DVMT Pre-Allocated value to 160MB (05) value in BIOS, the cursor problem persists, and from WhateverGreen's DEBUG logs I still can see that it is fixed to 60MB. FIXED

The problem above was in the fact that I was editing the wrong section, Setup (VarStoreId: 0x1) instead of SaSetup (VarStoreId: 0x16) hence my changes where vain. Now as you can see from the screenshot below, I can set 128MB with no issues

pre-allocated-corrected-value-128MB

The values I've tested to get the display to be functional after sleep are:

AAPL,ig-platform-id device-id Issues
0200518A 528A0000 (default from WeG) IN USE cursor problem fixed after understanding that I had to edit SaSetup with RU.efi
01005C8A 528A0000 (default from WeG) NOT in USE anymore - No cursor problem with stolenmem set to the highest possible value I can (59MB)
0200538A 538A0000 Black screen right after booting
0000528A 528A0000 (default from WeG) Black screen after sleep/wake cycle

Sleep

Remember that you are recommended to apply these settings once you booted macOS:

sudo pmset autopoweroff 0
sudo pmset powernap 0
sudo pmset standby 0
sudo pmset proximitywake 0
sudo pmset tcpkeepalive 0

You can keep tcpkeepalive on, but you might experience a litte bit more discharge than usual when putting your laptop to sleep overnight (7-8% instead of 3-5%) but you have the possibility to recieve notifications/updates every 2 hours since the laptop will wake to check them if tcpkeepalive is set to 1

sleep

Brightness keys

There is a simple SSDT-PS2.aml that works with the _Q10 and _Q11 rename which adds the correct Notify parameters to handle screen brightness while pressing F2 or F3. Please note that SSDT-PNLFCFL.aml is reqired too.

Memory Attributes Table (MAT) support is present

Hence, the only Booter > Quirks required to boot are AvoidRuntimeDefrag, RebuildAppleMemoryMap, SyncRuntimePermissions and SetupVirtualMap.

MMIO Devirtualization is not required.

Trackpad and Gestures

With this laptop, HP went with a trackpad on the ACPI path \_SB.PCI0.I2C1.TPD0 with the name ELAN0712, but actually it's an HID device. VoodooI2C.kext and VoodooI2CHID.kext successfully handle all the native gestures. Everything is working, even the 4-fingers gestures.

Please note that in order for the trackpad to work properly, you should set it in GPIO Interrupt in the BIOS and not APIC Interrupt (default)

USB Mapping

With the help of dreamwhite we found a clever way to map usb ports present in the DSDT without having to drop tables or having to load SSDT-RHUB.aml: in addition, I found from this useful list that many people had problems mapping USB ports (in my case, even if SSDT-5 from SysReport contains a dedicated USB table, blocking it and loading the customized one does not work since macOS will look at the ports defined in the DSDT instead). So the XUPC solved us all of this trouble and I'm perfectly fine with it.

Basically by hot patching the _UPC method to XUPC we managed to define that method in an external SSDT-USB.aml.

Wi-Fi speed with AirportItlwm and sleep

On WiFi support, do not use the BCM94360NG because makes macOS freeze randomly. This happened on multiple recent IceLake laptops. I've tested multiple cards and it seems that there is a very strict BIOS whitelist on what card is allowed to be used on this laptop. Intel 8260 (8086:24f3) was in use before, but with that one I couldn't get bluetooth support since these new IceLake laptops might expect CNViO cards like the Intel 9560NGW (8086:34F0)

A special thanks to ferdysopian for his help on fixing RFKILL enabled on macOS, see this thread for more information.

Credits

  • Apple for macOS
  • Acidanthera for OpenCore and Lilu-based kexts
  • dreamwhite for helping me to fix the I2C trackpad and with SSDT/ACPI hotpatching
  • ferdysopian for supporting me with WiFi RFKILL issues
  • Gengik84 for introducing us the GENG method used in SSDT-USB.aml
  • dortania team for its detailed guides
  • Corpnewt for SSDTTime and fewtarius for CPUFriend fork (now merged into Corp's repo)
  • m0d16l14n1 for providing a reference to all Ice Lake issues