OpenCore 0.8.3 roadmap

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The following issue is opened to keep track of the necessary changes to adapt the old guide to OpenCore 0.8.3:

• Introduction

  • Getting started with OpenCore
    • Prerequisites
  • Hardware Limitations
    • CPU Support
    • GPU Support
    • Motherboard Support
    • Storage Support
    • Wired Networking
    • Wireless Networking
    • Miscellaneous
  • Finding your hardware
    • Finding your hardware using Windows
    • Finding your hardware using Linux
    • Finding your hardware using OCSysInfo
  • Terminology
  • Why OpenCore over Clover and others
    • OpenCore features
    • OpenCore's shortcoming
    • Common myths

• USB Creation

  • Creating the USB
    • Making the installer in macOS
      • Downloading macOS: Modern OS
      • Downloading macOS: Legacy OS
      • Setting up the installer
      • Legacy Setup
      • Setting up OpenCore's EFI environment
      • Now with all of this done, head to Setting up the EFI to finish up your work
    • Making the installer in Windows
      • Downloading macOS
      • Making the installer
      • Now with all this done, head to Setting up the EFI to finish up your work
    • Making the installer in Linux
      • Downloading macOS
      • Making the installer
      • Now with all this done, head to Setting up the EFI to finish up your work
  • Adding The Base OpenCore files
  • Gathering files
    • Firmware drivers
      • Universal
      • Legacy users
    • Kexts
      • Must haves
      • VirtualSMC plugins
      • Graphics
      • Audio
      • Ethernet
      • USB
      • WiFi and Bluetooth
      • AMD CPU Specific kexts
      • Extras
      • Laptop Input
    • SSDTs
      • Desktop
      • High End Desktop
      • Laptop
  • Getting started with ACPI (external link)
  • config.plist Setup
    • Creating your config.plist
    • Adding your SSDTs, Kexts and Firmware Drivers
    • Selecting your platform
      • Intel Desktop
      • Intel Laptop
      • Intel HEDT
      • AMD

• Configs

  • Intel Desktop config.plist
    • Penryn
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Clarkdale
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Sandy Bridge
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Ivy Bridge
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Haswell
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Skylake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Kaby Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Coffee Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Comet Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Rocket Lake #10
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Alder Lake #9
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
  • Intel Laptop config.plist
    • Arrandale
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Sandy Bridge
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Ivy Bridge
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Haswell
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Broadwell
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Skylake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Kaby Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Coffee Lake and Whiskey Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Coffee Lake Plus and Comet Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Ice Lake
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
  • Intel HEDT config.plist
    • Nehalem and Westmere
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Sandy and Ivy Bridge-E
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Haswell-E
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Broadwell-E
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
    • Skylake-X/W and Cascade Lake-X/W
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • Intel BIOS settings
  • AMD Desktop config.plist
    • Bulldozer(15h) and Jaguar(16h)
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • AMD BIOS settings
    • Ryzen and Threadripper(17h and 19h)
      • Starting point
      • ACPI
      • Booter
      • DeviceProperties
      • Kernel
      • Misc
      • NVRAM
      • PlatformInfo
      • UEFI
      • Cleaning up
      • AMD BIOS settings
  • Apple Secure Boot
    • Misc

• Installation

  • Installation process
    • Double checking your work
    • Booting the OpenCore USB
    • macOS Installer

• Troubleshooting

  • General troubleshooting
    • Table of contents
    • OpenCore Boot Issues
      • Stuck on a black screen before picker
      • Stuck on no vault provided!
      • Stuck on OC: Invalid Vault mode
      • Can't see macOS partitions
      • Stuck on OCB: OcScanForBootEntries failure - Not Found
      • Stuck on OCB: failed to match a default boot option
      • Stuck on OCB: System has no boot entries
      • Stuck on OCS: No schema for DSDT, KernelAndKextPatch, RtVariable, SMBIOS, SystemParameters...
      • Stuck on OC: Driver XXX.efi at 0 cannot be found
      • Receiving "Failed to parse real field of type 1"
      • Can't select anything in the picker
      • SSDTs not being added
      • Booting OpenCore reboots to BIOS
      • OCABC: Incompatible OpenRuntime r4, require r10
      • Failed to open OpenCore image - Access Denied
      • OC: Failed to find SB model disable halting on critical error
    • Kernelspace Issues
      • Stuck on [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START]
        • Booter Issues
        • Kernel Patch Issues
        • UEFI Issues
      • Stuck on EndRandomSeed
      • Stuck after selecting macOS partition in OpenCore
      • Kernel Panic on Invalid frame pointer
      • Stuck on [EB|LD:OFS] Err(0xE) when booting preboot volume
      • Stuck on OCB: LoadImage failed - Security Violation
      • Stuck on OCABC: Memory pool allocation failure - Not Found
      • Stuck on Buffer Too Small
      • Stuck on Plist only kext has CFBundleExecutable key
      • Stuck on This version of Mac OS X is not supported: Reason Mac...
      • Couldn't allocate runtime area errors
      • Stuck on RTC..., PCI Configuration Begins, Previous Shutdown..., HPET, HID: Legacy...
      • Stuck at ACPI table loading on B550
      • "Waiting for Root Device" or Prohibited Sign error
        • USB Issues
        • SATA Issues
      • Kernel panic with IOPCIFamily on X99
      • Stuck on or near IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock.../gIOLockState (3...
      • Scrambled Screen on laptops
      • Black screen after IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock... on Navi
      • Kernel Panic Cannot perform kext summary
      • Kernel Panic AppleIntelMCEReporter
      • Kernel Panic AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
      • Kernel Panic AppleACPIPlatform in 10.13
      • macOS frozen right before login
      • Keyboard works but trackpad does not
      • kextd stall[0]: AppleACPICPU
      • Kernel Panic on AppleIntelI210Ethernet
      • Kernel panic on "Wrong CD Clock Frequency" with Icelake laptop
      • Kernel panic on "cckprngintgen"
      • Stuck at Forcing CS_RUNTIME for entitlement in Big Sur
      • Stuck on ramrod(^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
      • Virtual Machine Issues
      • Reboot on "AppleUSBHostPort::createDevice: failed to create device" on macOS 11.3+
    • Userspace Issues
      • macOS installer in Russian
      • macOS Installer being damaged
      • Stuck on or near IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock.../gIOLockState (3...
      • Scrambled Screen on laptops
      • Black screen after IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock... on laptops and AIOs
      • Black screen after IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock... on Navi
      • Frozen in the macOS installer after 30 seconds
      • 15h/16h CPU reboot after Data & Privacy screen
      • macOS frozen right before login
      • MediaKit reports not enough space
      • DiskUtility failing to erase
      • SATA Drives Not Shown in DiskUtility
      • Stuck at 2 minutes remaining
      • The recovery server cannot get contacted
      • Keyboard and Mouse broken in Big Sur
      • Stuck on Your Mac needs a firmware update in order to install to this volume
    • Post-Install issues
      • Broken iMessage and Siri
      • No on-board audio
      • BIOS reset or sent into Safemode after reboot/shutdown
      • Synaptics PS2 based trackpad doesn't work
      • Fix for Dell breakless PS2 keyboard keys
      • macOS GPU acceleration missing on AMD X570
      • DRM Broken
      • "Memory Modules Misconfigured" on MacPro7,1
      • Apps crashing on AMD
      • Sleep crashing on AMD
      • AssetCache Content Caching unavailable in virtual machine
      • Coffee Lake systems failing to wake
      • No brightness control on Dual GPU laptops
      • No temperature/fan sensor output
      • "You can't change the startup disk to the selected disk" error
      • Selecting Startup Disk doesn't apply correctly
      • macOS waking up with the wrong time
      • No Volume/Brightness control on external monitors
      • Time inconsistency between macOS and Windows
      • Disabling SIP
      • Writing to the macOS system partition
      • Rolling back APFS Snapshots
      • Apple Watch Unlock issues
      • 4K iGPU output issues over HDMI
    • Miscellaneous issues
      • Can't run acpidump.efi
      • Fixing SSDTTime: Could not locate or download iasl!
      • Fix Python: Python is not installed or not found on PATH
      • Windows Startup Disk can't see APFS drives
      • Incorrect resolution with OpenCore
      • Can't find Windows/BootCamp drive in picker
      • Selecting Startup Disk doesn't apply correctly
      • Booting Windows results in BlueScreen or Linux crashes
      • Booting Windows error: OCB: StartImage failed - Already started
      • iASL warning, only X unresolved
      • Time inconsistency between macOS and Windows
  • OpenCore Debugging
    • File Swaps
    • Config Changes
      • Misc
    • Disabling all logging
  • Understanding the macOS boot process
    • OpenCore booting
    • boot.efi handoff
    • XNU/Kernel handoff
    • macOS handoff
  • System Debugging: In-depth
    • EFI setup
    • config.plist setup
    • Serial Setup (optional)
    • Kernel Debug Kits (optional)

• Post Install

  • Post-Install (external link)
  • Universal
    • Security and FileVault (external link)
    • Fixing Audio (external link)
    • Booting without USB (external link)
    • Updating OpenCore, kexts and macOS (external link)
    • Fixing DRM (external link)
    • Fixing iServices (external link)
    • Fixing Power Management (external link)
    • Fixing Sleep (external link)
    • Fixing USB (external link)
  • Laptop specifics
    • Fixing Battery read-outs (external link)
  • Cosmetics
    • Fixing resolution and verbose (external link)
    • Add GUI and boot-chime (external link)
  • Multiboot
    • OpenCore Multiboot (external link)
    • Setting up LauncherOption (external link)
    • Installing BootCamp (external link)
  • Miscellaneous
    • Fixing RTC (external link)
    • Fixing CFG Lock (external link)
    • Emulated NVRAM (external link)

• Extras

  • Fixing KASLR slide values
    • So what is KASLR
    • And who is this info for
    • So how do I fix this
    • Prepping the BIOS
    • Test boot
    • Finding the Slide value
    • Using DevirtualiseMmio
  • Disabling dGPU
    • Windows GPU selection
  • macOS 12: Monterey
    • Prerequisites
      • Supported SMBIOS
      • Supported hardware
      • AMD Patches
      • Bluetooth
      • Ethernet
      • OTA Updates
      • Troubleshooting
  • Clover conversion (external link)
  • Choosing the right SMBIOS
    • How to decide
    • macOS SMBIOS list
      • MacBook
      • MacBook Air
      • MacBook Pro
      • Mac Mini
      • iMac
      • iMac Pro
      • Mac Pro
      • Xserve
      • Miscellaneous SMBIOS

• Misc

  • Supporting the guides
    • Contributing via issues
    • Contributing via PRs
      • How to contribute
      • Tips
    • Contributing via translations
  • Credits

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Will move Intel BIOS Settings onto a separated section