Supporting the patcher

OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a hobby project for us developers, and while we love helping out the community it's very difficult for us to troubleshoot issues remotely. The best way for us to get to work on the patcher, fix issues and add enhancements is having the hardware in-hand. As a hobby project, neither of the main developers can afford to buy every legacy Mac to test on.

The best way to support us in all honesty is to donate any old hardware you no longer need, as this allows us to have machines to test locally and push fixes much faster. While we appreciate cash donations, this makes it much more difficult for us to handle as an organization.

Main sections of help we'd appreciate:

• Donating any Mac you own
  • Does require SSE4,1 CPU to test on Sierra and newer however

Additionally, hardware info dumps are greatly beneficial for us to determine what patches a machine might need:

• IORegistryExplorer (opens new window)
  • File -> SaveAs and open an issue on Github
  • Note: We want IOReg dumps of hardware not running on OpenCore, instead running a clean, officially supported OS by the machine

If you have any legacy hardware you're willing to donate or what to buy us something, please contact us at the following email:

• khronokernel@icloud.com

Current hardware we own:

Model	CPU	GPU	Owner	Notes
MacBook5,1	Penryn	9400M	Mykola	N/A
MacBook7,1	Penryn	GT320M	Dhinak	N/A
MacBook7,1	Penryn	GT320M	Mykola	N/A
MacBookPro5,3	Penryn	9400M + 9600M	Dhinak	Display's partially broken
MacBookPro8,2	Sandy Bridge	HD3000	Mykola	Dead dGPU
MacPro3,1	Penryn	GTX 680	Dhinak	N/A
Macmini4,1	Penryn	GT320M	Dhinak	N/A

Dead Hardware:

Model	CPU	GPU	Owner	Notes
MacPro3,1	Penryn	HD5770, RX570, GT710	Mykola	No longer powers on
MacPro4,1	Westmere	HD7950	Mykola	Dead Northbridge on CPU Tray