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Great piece of software..Some thoughts for future builds... #8

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aniuks33 opened this issue Jun 21, 2020 · 1 comment
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Great piece of software..Some thoughts for future builds... #8

aniuks33 opened this issue Jun 21, 2020 · 1 comment

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@aniuks33
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Great idea to make Opencore even easier to setup
Some thoughts after testing it today:

  • WhateverGreen.kext could be added to essential list
    -Required aml's (or .dsl files to compile) could be added to EFI Folder depending on system type (ex. Skylake has two SSDTs to be added to ACPI folder: PLUG and EC-USBX)
    -OpenCanopy.efi is missing from drivers folder.
    -SMBIOS section could have generate button to auto-generate serial numbers after selecting SMBIOS type, example iMac17,1
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Pavo-IM commented Jun 21, 2020

Thanks for the suggestions but here is the reason I am not adding any of the suggestions you are asking for.

WhateverGreen.kext could be added to essential list

  • WhateverGreen is not needed to boot on all systems types, if someone needs it, they can enable it themselves. But most do not need it at all.

Required aml's (or .dsl files to compile) could be added to EFI Folder depending on system type (ex. Skylake has two SSDTs to be added to ACPI folder: PLUG and EC-USBX)

  • SSDTs are not being added simply because there is thousands of ways of doing them and I can not guarentee the user has iasl installed on their system, I will not include it my app because of other reasons.

OpenCanopy.efi is missing from drivers folder.

  • OpenCanopy.efi again is not needed in order to boot, the default setting in Sample.plist that comes with OpenCore release uses Builtin option which mean OpenCanopy.efi is not needed.

SMBIOS section could have generate button to auto-generate serial numbers after selecting SMBIOS type, example iMac17,1

  • SMBIOS generation, I actually thought about adding that feature but with all the stink going around right now with copyrights and such I decided against it because who knows what issues it could cause.

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