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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Benjamin-Dobell

Don't patch NVDAStartupWeb.kext?

Open Benjamin-Dobell opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

Rather than patching nVidia's Info.plist, we may be able to distribute our own signed codeless kext that forwards onto NVDAStartupWeb.kext, in a similar fashion to what I do with Heimdall.

The installer would still need to be patched, but it means NVDAStartupWeb.kext is totally unpatched.

This has pros and cons... just thinking at this point.

Benjamin-Dobell avatar Feb 15 '18 04:02 Benjamin-Dobell

This is perhaps also similar to what NVDAEGPUSupport does as it leaves the Web Drivers untouched (although it is not codeless, it overrides classes, etc.), yes? Patching the installer is still a lot better than patching kexts and repairing its permissions I would presume.

PS: Great work on the script 👍

mayankk2308 avatar Feb 20 '18 01:02 mayankk2308

I haven't checked it out yet, but @vulgo has put together a codeless kext which we could consider signing:

https://github.com/vulgo/WebDriverStartup

Benjamin-Dobell avatar Feb 22 '18 16:02 Benjamin-Dobell