Acelogic/Snapintosh
EL2 hypervisor and toolchain that boots macOS on the ASUS A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite), with an Adreno Metal/IOGPU stack
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Snapintosh boots Apple's macOS 27 (build 26A428) on an ASUS Zenbook A16 laptop with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-96-100). It is an EL2 monitor (hypervisor) and the toolchain around it. The monitor runs Apple's stock kernelcache (the J700/T8140 kernel) unmodified by default. It supplies the platform contracts that the kernel expects from Apple silicon: the SPTM and TXM monitor calls, translation of the kernel's 16 KiB page tables, and the Apple devices the kernel looks for. Graphics run on the laptop's own Adreno X2-90 GPU through a driver stack written for this project: internal panel. Mesa's ir3 for the Adreno. There is no software, CPU or paravirtual rendering path. The project also includes an I2C-HID keyboard and touchpad driver (SnapI2CHID), native QCC2072 Wi-Fi work, and NVMe storage through an emulated Apple storage controller. Snapintosh is used together with q1n1, a UEFI EL2 proxy forked from Asahi Linux's m1n1. q1n1…
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- Snapintosh
- Status
- Required hardware
- Architecture in brief
- Repository layout
- Building
- Bring your own Apple software
- Warning
- Legal
- License
- Credits
- Documentation
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What this repository does
EL2 hypervisor and toolchain that boots macOS on the ASUS A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite), with an Adreno Metal/IOGPU stack
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- Owner
- Acelogic
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 324
- Forks
- 15
- Open issues + pull requests
- 4
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-22T01:40:05.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-22T06:36:50.000Z
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