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Dell-Precision-7520-OpenCore

Before you give this EFI a try, make sure you read this and this!

This repo includes an OpenCore EFI for the Dell Precision 7520. For the 7720 and AMD variants, we like to hear feedback here.

Testing on:

Model	Dell Precision 7520
CPU	Intel Core i7-6820HQ
iGPU	Intel HD Graphics 530 (spoofed to HD 630)
dGPU	NVIDIA Quadro M2200 (disabled)
RAM	32 GB DDR4
WiFi	Intel® Dual Band-Wireless-AC 8265
macOS	Sonoma 14.0 Beta

What works?

Audio
Battery readout
Boot
Brightness Control
Ethernet
GPU acceleration
Keyboard + Trackpad
Power Management
SD card reader
WiFi
Sleep
USB
Webcam
Speaker
Trackpoint

What doesn't work?

dGPU (no support past High Sierra)
headphone jack (white noise)
Thunderbolt (untested)
HDMI (untested)
Bluetooth

UEFI settings

Parallel Port: Disabled
Serial Port: Enabled
Virtualization Support: Enabled
SATA Operation: AHCI
Thunderbolt: Disabled
Secure Boot: Disabled
Legacy Option ROM: Disabled
Wake on LAN/WLAN: Disabled

How to install

Download the latest release and place the EFI folder into your internal drive's EFI partition... That's it.

How to Install macOS Ventura

Have a working install of macOS, download the full installer package, install it to get the installer app, then make a bootable Installer with createinstallmedia by using this command in Terminal sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/NameOfTheUSB

After you have created a bootable Installer, copy the EFI folder to the EFI partition of the installer drive and install as usual (GUID Partiton Map; APFS). After the installation, mount the EFI partition of the installed OS and copy the EFI folder to its partition.

Generating your own serial and Editing ROM

Use GenSMBIOS (https://github.com/corpnewt/GenSMBIOS) to generate a serial for MacBookPro13,3 (Skylake) or 14,3 (Kaby Lake)

use Xcode, ProperTree or any decent plist editor to manually enter the details in the following sections of the config (as shown in the video): (SystemSerialNumber, MLB, and UUID)

SMBIOS.mp4