After much development VoodooHDA is now available for public testing. This is a fully functional alternative for patching AppleHDA. It supports a wide range of codecs and is designed for Intel systems.

You can test version 0.2.2 by visiting this thread. Report any bugs you find on the Voodoo Project forums.

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The Voodoo team have done it again and released their VoodooPS2Controller kext. No longer is AppleACPIPS2Nub needed! The driver can be fully configured from System Preferences. Features include:

• 102-key keyboard support
• Mixed PS/2 and USB configurations
• Scrolling support on Alps trackpads
• Sentelic touchpad support
• Advanced Synaptics trackpad support
• Resolution fix for PS/2 mice

The current version is 0.98 and can be found on the Chameleon website here. Installation is as normal with kexts and advanced configuration can be found in Contents/Plugins/VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext/Info.plist and IOKitPersonalities/Synaptics Touchpad/Configuration.

Full credits on the chameleon website.

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A coder by the name of iPhoneTom has created a new form of bootloader that truly emulates EFI rather than just bits of it using DUET. UEFI, as it’s called, loads Apple EFI firmware modules giving a true EFI bootloader. Currently it has to be loaded off a specially formatted USB stick but progress is being made fast on this.

The bootloader also allows loading of custom DSDT tables and will let you boot retail DVD and vanilla installs. One drawback is the lack of support for AHCI SATA drives at the moment however this should be integrated in the coming months. Check it out here and in the #UEFI-Boot IRC channel.

zef and the Chameleon team have successfully managed to get Chameleon 2.0 out – right before April Fool’s day. Some good timing on their part. You can grab the latest Chameleon 2.0 Release Candidate 1 from here and enjoy the new features such as a brand new GUI and integration of features such as DSDT loading, DVD drive booting and the like.

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Zef and the chameleon team have been working hard to integrate all the patches and features produced by the community into one unified version of the Chameleon bootloader since the 64k barrier was broken. Let’s look at the customization features.

With the new limit of 383.5k some very nice and high resolution images can be contained in the bootloader and to be honest- the default images alone look great and really show the achievement of the Chameleon team.

The old command line version of the bootloader can still be specified in the Boot.plist however who could turn down the juicy looking images below?

If you’re wondering when you’ll be able to get your mitts on this then you’ll be waiting a little longer whilst the remaining issues are resolved but feature-wise the bootloader is now frozen. Keep an eye on the Chameleon Blog for updates and more previews.

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