Acer Swift 3 2019 SF314-55G Hackintosh

For Mojave Clover (discontinued) -> Mojave-clover branch

Status: ✅ Daily usable

This EFI aiming to config mostly DSDT patch and try to not install kext if possible.

Known working version

• Catalina - 10.15.7
• Big Sur - 11.6.1

Table of content

• Spec
• Working ✅
• Not working ❌
• Installation 🍱
• Post Installation
• FYI
• Ref

Spec

• I5-8562U Whiskey lake
• UHD 620
• Nvidia MX250
• ALC256
• WD SSD 512GB
• 2 USB3
• 1 USB-C with PD charging and Display port compatibility
• Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560

Working ✅

Everythings is working.

Feature	Note
Sound 🔊	✅ Speaker and Headphone (headset microphone work via ComboJack and VerbStub.kext)
Graphic 🏞	✅ Intel UHD 620 and completly disable dGPU (with DSDT and Whatevergreen)
HDMI and DisplayPort 📺	✅ With audio on both port
Brightness ☀️	✅
USB-A and USB-C 📁	✅ Completly disable Fingerprint and SDCard reader with USBMapping
Touchpad 🖱	✅
Wifi and Bluetooth ☁️	✅ Handoff, copy file across device (but No AirDrop)
Sleep 🛌	✅
FireVault 🔐	✅

Know not working ❌

• Internal microphone 🎤 (No workaround to get Intel® SST working yet)

Installation 🍱

• Make USB from this guide Making the installer from Dortania
• Copy EFI folder to your root
• Make sure you got the right version of AirportItlwm.kext. Depends on MacOS version Catalina and Big Sur.
• Generate new SMBIOS https://github.com/corpnewt/GenSMBIOS

Post Installation

• Not things to do here. everything is include in EFI
• Setting > TouchPad. Untick Force Click and haptic feedback this one causing invert click on touchpad
• (Optional) Install ComboJack for working headset microphone and VerbStub.kext.

For your infomation

• Config.plist **

  • Start with this Laptop Coffee Lake and Whiskey Lake
  • The one from dortania's tutorial won't works and gets kernel panic. Change to following settings.
    • EnableWriteUnprotector=True
    • RebuildAppleMemoryMap=False
    • Recommend MacBookPro15,2
      • tried MacBookPro15,1 seems like brightness control not working.

• Graphics - PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)

  • AAPL,ig-platform-id = 0000A53E
  • device-id = A53E0000

• DSDT

  • Touchpad Fixing Trackpads (SSDT-GPI0/XOSI)
    • SSDT-GPIO.aml
    • SSDT-XOSI.aml
  • SSDT-EC.aml - EC fix
  • SSDT-HPET.aml - Sound
  • SSDT-PLUG.aml - Allow Native CPU Power management
  • SSDT-PMC.aml - Fix Native NVRAM **(Your installation won't finished and freeze without this)
  • SSDT-PNLF.aml - Fix backlight brightness control
  • SSDT-dGPU-Off.aml - Disable dGPU this one is special made for only this laptop.

• Kext

  • Wifi
    • AirportItlwm.kext - v2.0.0
  • Bluetooth - v2.0.1
    • IntelBluetoothFirmware.kext
    • IntelBluetoothInjector.kext
  • Sound - layout-id is 17 or 5,11,13 is work as well
    • 1.6.7
    • AppleALC.kext
    • AppleALCU.kext
  • Lilu.kext - 1.5.8
  • WhateverGreen.kext - 1.5.5
  • VirtualSMC - 1.2.8
    • SMCBatteryManager.kext
    • SMCProcessor.kext
    • SMCSuperIO.kext
    • VirtualSMC.kext
  • VoodooI2C with DSDT patch to work.
    • 2.6.5
    • VoodooI2C.kext
    • VoodooI2CHID.kext
  • VoodooPS2Controller.kext - 2.27
  • USBMap.kext - Special made for this device Why should you USB map

Ref.

• Thanks to richardchiu [Guide] Acer Swift 5 SF514-53t whiskey lake MacOS10.14.5

Contributors

• cjtim
• pawanzZ for microphone working please use pawanzZ's Repo :), Thank you.