Tips: If you want to use built-in network adapter, you'd better buy a new pcie card, and I suggest DW1560 or DW1830, considering about the size and space. Also, P52 does not have whitelist upon WLAN hardware, you even do not need to modify your BIOS
- Simplified Chinese Video Guides | Bilibili.com
- Thanks to z for supporting the guides video
- Download from repo. Not released to the tag yet, since macOS-12 is still in beta progress.
- The latest version: V4.2
- Download Here
- Update to OpenCore 0.7.1 official version
- Support macOS 12.0 beta
- Add support for intel wireless NIC.
- Only tested on the Xeon-E3 & 4k platform.
- Update to OpenCore 0.6.0 official version
- Support macOS 11.0 beta 4
- Fix a few minor bugs
- Add device support for P53 and P73
- RAM 32GB single slot is supported natively
- AppleALC is merged in the official version. The CODE has been merged in acidanthera's GitHub
- Happy New Year!!
- Update Clover version to r5103
- Customize the AppleALC, add Layout-ID 52 to the appleALC kext.
- Update Clover version to r5100
- Support Catalina macOS 10.15.3 beta1
- Fully supports macOS 10.15.2 Catalina
- USB3.1 supported under macOS Catalina
- Fully supports macOS 10.15 Catalina
- 10.15 beta 6 is supported
- Touchpad is supported, 5 finger-touch is detected
- Fans Speed could be detected
- Thunderbolt 3 was improved
- The new version uses ssdt, aka the hotpatch, and ThunderBolt 3 ports are supported, and eGPU is supported.
- 128G DDR4 version P52 can boot up
- Xeon E2176m version P52 can boot up
- Core i7-8750H, i7-8850H, i9-8959HK, Xeon E2176m are supported
- We are close to the perfect
- Brightness control hotkey works properly
- IR camera is disabled to avoid the default camera switched to IR camera
- Touch Screen & Stylus works
- Solved with VoodooSMBus, and 5 finger could be detected
It seems that the full gesture will be enabled, I haven't tested it yet. If anyone has interest in it, try the kext, patches and instructions mentioned in the following link, ELANSMBus
- Lenovo ThinkPad P52 Series Notebook, It seems that P72 can also work with this clover, not tested
- Mojave disk image is prepared, normally .dmg file, 10.14 & 10.14.2 & 10 ver.14.3 version has been tested
- USB storage (at least 8 Gigabytes)
- Broadcom DW1560 or DW1830 WLAN PCIE card (DW1830 requires modified antenna)
- Boot mode: UEFI
- Display mode: Hubrid Graphics
- security boot- disabled
- Storage mode: AHCI (If you are in RST mode, you need to switch it to AHCI mode)
- Boot clover with UEFI mode
- Built-in keyboard (partial function key and Num keyboard works well)
- native USB3 / USB2 ports (USB type-c can work,
but two thunderbolts has not been tested) - AppleHDA native audio, Speakers + Internal Mic + Headphone
- Built in Camera
- Native power management
- Battery Status (Percentage can be displayed)
- Brightness control
- Backlit keyboard (Use Fn + space)
- INTEL iGPU UHD 630 1536MB Vram (DGPU has been disabled by hotpatch)
- Ethernet port
- Mac App Store works normally
- CPU SpeedStep
- Sleep + Wake
- Multitouch Touchpanel
- Wireless LAN [Broadcom DW1560(OEM by Dell), DW1830(OEM by Dell), BCM94352Z(OEM by Lenovo), BCM943602BAED(OEM by Lenovo), BCM94360CS2(OEM by Apple), BCM943602CS(OEM by Apple)]
- Bluetooth
- AirDrop, AirPlay and HandOff
- Trackpoint
- 4K display (Use 4K version config)
- Thunderbolt works properly, even connecting to eGPU using graphics dock.
Touchpad can work with one finger gesture by using VoodooPS2 kextin the future touchpad can work with ApplePS2SmartTouchPad kext by patching hopefully
- HDMI, HDMI port is connected with disabled NVIDIA DGPU (Use ThunderBolt eGPU to connect the external monitor, we recommand you using AMD Radeon RX series or Vega series)
- LTE WWAN card (L850GL)