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I detail most of the development process in part 1:

https://codyho.dev/blog/hypervisor-macbook-neo/

tl;dr you reboot the device with `macvdmtool`, you install m1n1 as the boot object, you talk to the m1n1 proxy over a python shell. I'm documenting the process as I go also (see: the blog posts, also my github repos) both so others can do it and as record of the clean room nature, but this really is just GPT go brrrrr

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> but this really is just GPT go brrrrr

I guess its a good reason to try it with M6 mac mini or Vision Pro then (yeah I know AVP has locked bootloader). Thanks.


I'll add an addendum to the blog post at some point with a more detailed method because there is demand, but the tl;dr is:

- boot macos under hypervisor (detailed guide in my part 1) into single user mode

- write your own metal program and run it as early in boot as you can

- trace all relevant graphics regions

- once you see the first kick, intercept that kick, then capture the full uat state

- reboot the device, then copy that whole uat state back into the machine, every bit exactly where it was

- perform the kick, verify the output page changes as expected

- have the LLM build all the objects itself in python

- repeat with different metal programs until we have all the behavior you want

- for a list of all behaviors you want, just look at the m1/m2 kernel driver and make sure everything they do has an analogue in your codebase

- if there's every any problems, there's a very simple debugging loop: 1. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A REPLAYABLE CAPTURE. if you don't then priority #1 is to get that capture. once you have that capture, it's only a matter of time until it works




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