Acer Swift 3/5 IceLake Hackintosh (OpenCore)

Support Version

• OpenCore: 0.7.9
• MacOS: Big Sur 11.6.5（20G527)

Tested Model Spec

All Acer Swift 3/5 IceLake laptop can possibly use the same EFI file, but we suggest to test by yourself.

• Acer Swift 5 SF514-54GT

  Specifications	Detail
  Processor	i7-1065G7
  Integrated Graphics	Intel Iris Plus Graphics
  Graphic Card	NVIDIA GeForce MX350 2G
  Memory	16GB8Gx2 Sk Hynix LPDDR4X 2667MHz
  Sound Card	Conexant CX20671
  Wireless Card	AX201

• Acer Swift 3 SF314-57G

  Specifications	Detail
  Processor	i5-1035G1
  Integrated Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics
  Graphic Card	NVIDIA GeForce MX350 2G
  Memory	8GB Sk Hynix LPDDR4X 2667MHz
  Sound Card	Conexant CX20671
  Wireless Card	AX201

What is Working?

• CPU power management
• Hardware acceleration
• Sleep/Wake
• Battery read-out
• Audio (Internal speakers, 3.5mm headphone jack) ^{Unstable(Mic, Mute button, Boot from Windows)}
• Keyboard & trackpad/touchscreen with all macOS gestures
• Wi-Fi & Bluetooth
• USB ports

What is Not Working?

• Airdrop ^{Not Supported in MacOS when using Intel Wireless Card}
• FingerPrint ^{Not Supported in MacOS}
• NVIDIA GeForce MX350 ^{Disable in ACPI}
• ThunderBolt 3 ^{Type-C port is fine to use.}

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Guidance

Getting started with OpenCore

Essentially follow the Laptop Icelake | OpenCore Install Guide and incorporate the insights listed below.

BIOS

We accept no liability for any loss or damage howsoever changing BIOS with this guidance and cause damage on your device. Please be careful and make sure you know what you are doing.

• Due to some BIOS setting options are hidden by Acer, we can use several tools to help us matching Intel BIOS Settings | OpenCore Install Guide, here are the steps below.

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Info

Now with all that, here are the tools we need

All tools are in here.^{(Password is 1234)}

• Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit
  • For Dumping BIOS rom
• InsydeH2OUVE
  • For Setting up BIOS
• UEFITool_NE
  • For extracting and modifying UEFI firmware images
• Universal IFR Extractor (Windows | MacOS)
  • Utility to extract the internal forms representation from both EFI and UEFI drivers/applications into human readable text file.

Please follow this for the details , which was written in Chinese, but there had some images to tell you how to do.

I. Dump BIOS Rom

• Run Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit as administrator and dump the BIOS rom.

After you dump your own BIOS, we recommend following the steps down below by using MacOS. Some UEFI information will lost in Windows when you extract.

II. Extracting UEFI firmware images

• Use UEFITool_NE to extract UEFI firmware files, and turn it into txt file by using Universal IFR Extractor.

III. Find the specific settings in txt file.

• For example, you will find the information like this:

  Name	Var Store	Variable	Default	Value	Description
  DVMT Pre-Allocated	0x2	0x107	0x1	0x2	DVMT 32M ➜ 64M
  CFG Lock	0x3	0x3E	0x1	0x0	Disable CFG Lock

  And then,

  Var Store: 0x2[555] (SaSetup) {...}
  Var Store: 0x3[570] (CpuSetup) {...}

IV. Change BIOS settings.

• According to the information in Step III to fix the value in BIOS by using InsydeH2OUVE.

  • You need to run WDFInst.exe first and them open the InsydeH2OUVE.
  • Set Low Power S0 Idle Capability to Disable in BIOS or you will get a sleep problem with it.(MacOS only support S3 Sleep State)

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Specific Patch

ACPI

Add

• SSDT-dGPU-Off
  • More details in Disabling laptop dGPUs | Getting Started With ACPI

Booter

MmioWhitelist

• MMIO IceLake

  • This will cause early kernel panics on Acer IceLake Laptop.

    Comment	String	MMIO 0xFF600000 Icelake
    Enabled	Boolean	True
    Address	Number	4284481536

DeviceProperties

Add

• PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)
  • Support all possible Core Display Clock (CDCLK) frequencies on ICL platforms
  • Fix the issue that the builtin display remains garbled after the system boots on ICL platforms
  • More details in Intel Iris Plus Graphics (Ice Lake processors) | WhateverGreen (Intel® HD Graphics FAQs)

NVRAM

Add

• 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82
  • boot-args
    • -noDC9
      • This will fix sleep problem
    • -igfxdbeo -igfxcdc
      • Ignore when you place in DeviceProperties

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Credits

• Apple for the macOS.
• Acidanthera for awesome kexts and first-class support for hackintosh enthusiasts.
• Dortania for the great guides.
• mfpss95134 for fixing bugs in Acer Swift Laptop.
• 了了 for setting up the BIOS.