Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Nightfox
From : 2twisty
Date : Wed Apr 20 2022 08:36:03

 Ni> I thought Apple's M1 processor is ARM at its core, isn't it?  If it's
 Ni> running on another ARM system, I don't see why it would need to be
 Ni> recompiled.  Unless there's more to Apple's M1 processor than I'm aware
 Ni> of.

Yes, at its core, it's ARM.

Then again, an Intel 12900KS and AMD Ryzen 5800X3D are both Intel 8086 "at their core."

Apple could ADD additional instruction sets to the base ARM design, and then writing their source code to use those insructions. A regular ARM chip would have no idea how to use it.

This would be akin to trying to run a 64-bit windows OS (or app) on a 32-bit processor.  The chip the  OS targets has instructions that the 32 bit one has no clue about.  So, in order to run on 32 bit processors, the code has to be recompiled (and possibly edited) to run on a 32 bit rather than 64 bit processor.

M1 MacOS will never run on a "garden variety" ARM chip.  Apple learned their lesson with all the Hackintoshes.  

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