More than 64 threads Xeon E5-26xx v4 build

[JKGiova]

Hi everyone, that's my first post in this community. I haven't Hackintoshed at all yet so this also my first time hackintoshing. I have an old broken Mac Pro 5,1 from 2010 that I can't repair so I decided to imitate Linus Tech Tips by building a workstation Hackintosh inside it. I want more than 64 threads and as I've chosen to use two Xeons E5 26xx v4 (I'll define later the precise model) I want them to have Turbo Boost unlocked. The motherboard I'm thinking about is the Huananzhi F8D, a Chinese E-ATX motherboard. That brilliant guy made a GitHub repo with the EFI and a guide to reach what I want but with the 64-threads limitation. Is there a workaround for that? Thanks in advance

[fabiosun]

2 hours ago, JKGiova said:

Is there a workaround for that? Thanks in advance

No limit is OSX max thread number

i had in the past 2 2696V4 and i have to limit as tou sould have to do 

[tomnic]

64 max total cores / threads is not only a XNU limitation, but also a hardcoded limit in AppleACPI and similar crucial boot kexts... you can "bypass" the 3F cores limit by a kernel patch, Pikeralpha studied about it, but for personal (tragic) reasons he had to retire... so limit is still present and, right now, not avoidable: https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/316804-80-core-hackintosh/

 

 

[JKGiova]

I've already know that informations, but thanks anyway. What about Pikeralpha, what progresses has he made in this problem?

[tomnic]

https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/xcpm-for-unsupported-processor/comment-page-2/#comments just read comments, everything which is being tried is here, even @fabiosun posted there at those times!