/AMD_Vanilla

Native AMD macOS via Clover & OpenCore

AMD Vanilla Clover

If you are looking for OpenCore, go here.

Kernel binary patches to enable native AMD CPU support on macOS.

Features

  • Enables macOS to run on AMD CPUs on the fly.
  • Enables iMessage, Siri, FaceTime, Continuity etc.
  • Stable compared to custom XNU kernel.

Disadvantages

  • No 32-bit support (OPEMU) in 10.14 and lower

Supported AMD CPU's

Family Codename Example
15h Bulldozer FX Series
16h Jaguar A Series
17h Zen Ryzen, Threadripper, Athlon 2xxGE

Supported macOS versions

  • High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65, 17G66, 17G8030, 17G8037)
  • Mojave 10.14.6 (18G84, 18G87, 18G95, 18G103)
  • Catalina 10.15.0 (19A583, 19A602), 10.15.1 (19B88)

Instructions

  • Download macOS High Sierra, Mojave or Catalina from the App Store.
  • Plug in an empty USB drive.
  • Run one of the below commands in your Terminal to prepare the bootable macOS USB.
NOTE: Make sure to replace 'MyVolumeName' with your actual USB volume name in the below commands.

## High Sierra
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolumeName

## Mojave
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolumeName

## Catalina
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolumeName
  • Install Clover on your USB drive.
  • Place the config.plist provided, according to your CPU family (i.e 15h_16h or 17h) in your USB EFI Clover folder EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ and edit it as per your needs. Note: If you are making your own Clover config, use patches.plist and merge the patches manually.
  • Place the required kext according to your system in your USB EFI kexts folder EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/.

Special Notes

  • For 15h_16h CPU family users on macOS Mojave:
    • Upon booting to macOS Mojave for first time, the system will reboot after the Data & Privacy screen. To fix this issue follow the procedure mentioned here under UPDATE-2 heading.
    • On macOS Mojave certain webpages will crash upon loading (eg. brew.sh, facebook.com). To fix this issue follow the procedure mentioned here under UPDATE-5 heading.
  • To boot 10.15 two things needs to be taken care of:
    • If you have an EC device with ID PNP0C09 in your DSDT then macOS might get stuck while booting at the initial stage. To fix that you need to make sure your EC device is disabled by making it return status Zero. You can use a custom SSDT-EC0.aml to do that and if you want to see how it works then refer here.
      -or-
      You can change the ID of the EC device. Use this ACPI patch: 
          Comment             Find        Replace
PNP0C09 to PNPFFFF    41D00C09     41D0FFFF
    • If using SMBIOS MacPro6,1, MacPro7,1, or iMacPro1,1, AppleIntelMCEReporter.kext might panic. To prevent that you need to either use a different SMBIOS model or use a disabler kext from here.

Credits

  • AlGrey for the idea and creating the patches.
  • XLNC for maintaining patches to various macOS versions.
  • Sinetek, Andy Vandijck, spakk, Bronya, Tora Chi Yo, Shaneee and many others for sharing their AMD/XNU kernel knowledge