Barry K. Nathan

These are not HiDPI/Retina displays, correct? (I just want to make sure before I try to reproduce this on hardware that is officially supported by Big Sur.)

> Late 2009 21.5" iMac, Mid 2010 white MacBook, 2010 13" MacBook Pro [...] The framebuffer driver does not provide acceleration; the lack of graphics acceleration plus the relatively slow...

One of my Macs is supported, so I should try Big Sur WiFi on there and see if iPhone hotspots and hidden SSIDs work. (I think at least one of...

> I checked it on a MBP15 Late 2013 and the hidden SSIDs and iPhone hotspots work there. Anyhow thanks for all the work with the patcher. It is absolutely...

I also saw your pull request, and I've merged it. I'll close this issue once I release v0.5.2.

Yes, in principle someone could create a patcher based on OpenCore. OpenCore can even inject kexts without having to install them on the APFS system volume. (That may not be...

For what it's worth, there are instructions here for using OpenCore on unsupported Macs: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-For-Legacy-Macs/

For what it's worth, @MikeBeaton (on issue #70) brought this to my attention: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-11-big-sur-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2242172/post-29162400

@Ribero The link I posted is originally from @MikeBeaton, as I mentioned in my comment.

If you have to ask where to download it, I would suggest waiting for the next patcher release, v0.5.2. It will be out in the next day or so. (To...