Fujitsu Esprimo Q958 Mini Hackintosh OpenCore

TABLE of CONTENTS

• About
• System Specs
• What works?
  • Notable Features
• BIOS Settings
• EFI Folder Content
• Deployment
  • Prepare EFI
  • Disable CFG Lock
  • macOS Installation
• Post-Install
  • Disable Gatekeeper
  • Using AirportItlwm instead of Itlwmin macOS Sequoia/Tahoe (optional)
    • Config Preparations
    • Applying Root Patches
  • Enabling Audio in macOS Tahoe
  • Modify Power Management Settings
  • Strengthen Security (optional)
  • Enable brightness control for external displays (optional)
  • Add Eject button for optical drive to Menu Bar (optional)
• Geekbench 5 Benchmarking Results
  • CPU
  • iGPU
• Maintenance
  • Adding kext URLs to OCAT
• Credits

About

OpenCore EFI folder for running macOS Sonoma, Sequoia and Tahoe on the Fujitsu Esprimo Q958 Small Form Factor PC. As far as I am aware, this is the first OpenCore EFI for this system. I am using it daily as my primary office/streaming purposes with a 4k display. It's a quite capable and powerful mini-pc with a true 300-series chipset. It can be maxed-out with an i9-9900T (8 Cores 16 Threads) and 64 Gigs of RAM.

System Specs

What works?

• OS:
  • macOS Sonoma+
  • Windows 10+
• iGPU
• SATA drive
• NVME drive
• USB port mapping (USB 2, USB 3.1, USB C, Bluetooth)
• Ethernet
• Audio (Line-out, Headphone, Mic, Integrated Speaker)
• Intel Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• Sleep and Wake

Notable Features

• Hibernation fully working (Modes 3 and 25)
• All 3 Graphics ports are working (con0 = DVI, con1 = DP1 (bottom), con2 = DP2 (Top))
• USB Port Mapping via ACPI to maximize compatibility
• 3D Globe in Apple Maps.
• Optimized EFI folder size by using slimmed kexts (11 MB in total instead of the default 54 MB)
• Added file system support for Linux (How to add a distro icon to the bootpicker)

BIOS Settings

EFI Folder Content

EFI
├── BOOT
│   └── BOOTx64.efi
└── OC
    ├── ACPI
    │   ├── DMAR.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-EC.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-MCHC.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-OSDW.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-PLUG.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-PMC.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-RTCAWAC
    │   ├── SSDT-SBUS.aml
    │   ├── SSDT-USBX.aml
    │   └── SSDT-XHUB.aml
    ├── Drivers
    │   ├── HfsPlus.efi
    │   ├── OpenCanopy.efi
    │   ├── OpenRuntime.efi
    │   └── ResetNvramEntry.efi
    ├── Kexts
    │   ├── AdvancedMap.kext (macOS 12+)
    │   ├── AirportItlwm_Sequoia.kext
    │   ├── AirportItlwm_Sonoma.kext
    │   ├── AMFIPass.kext (macOS 12+)
    │   ├── AppleALC.kext
    │   ├── BlueToolFixup.kext (macOS 12+)
    │   ├── CPUFriend.kext
    │   ├── CPUFriendDataProvider.kext
    │   ├── IntelBluetoothFirmware.kext
    │   ├── IntelBTPatcher.kext
    │   ├── IntelMausiEthernet.kext
    │   ├── IO80211FamilyLegacy.kext (macOS 14+)
    │   ├── IOSkywalkFamily.kext (macOS 14+)
    │   ├── itlwm.kext
    │   ├── Lilu.kext
    │   ├── NVMeFix.kext
    │   ├── RestrictEvents.kext (macOS 11+)
    │   ├── SMCProcessor.kext
    │   ├── SMCSuperIO.kext
    │   ├── VirtualSMC.kext
    │   └── WhateverGreen.kext
    ├── OpenCore.efi
    ├── Resources (NOTE: shows sub-folders only, no files)
    │   ├── Font
    │   └── Image
    │       └── Acidanthera
    │       │   └── GoldenGate
    │       └── Label
    └── config.plist

Deployment

Prepare EFI

• Download the latest OC EFI folder from the Releases section
• Extract it
• Open the config.plist with OCAT
• Enable Kernel/Quirks → AppleXcpmCfgLock
• Go to Misc/Tools and set enable the CFGLock tool.
• Next, go to PlatformInfo/generic. Press "Generate" to create Serials, MLB etc. (or use GenSMBIOS
• Save the config.plist
• Copy the EFI folder to a FAT32 formatted USB flash drive and reboot
• Press F12 to enter the BIOS Boot Menu
• Select the USB Flash Drive and press Enter to run OpenCore

Continue with the next section, "Disable CFG Lock"

Disable CFG Lock

• In the OC Bootmenu, press space bar to show hidden tools
• Select CFGLock.efi and press Enter to run it
• Follow the on-screen Instructions to disable CFGLock (set it to 0)
• Quit the tool
• Boot into macOS
• Mount EFI partition and open your config.plist
• Disable the CFGLock Tool (Misc/Tools)
• Save your config and reboot

:bulb: Once CFG Lock is disabled, you can disable the AppleXcpmCfgLock Quirk in your config.plist!

macOS Installation

• Put the EFI folder at the root of a FAT32-formatted USB flash drive. You can boot OpenCore from it
• To create a macOS USB installer, follow Dortania’s OpenCore Install Guide

Post-Install

This section contains post-install-measures to enable features, work around issues and some optional settings.

Disable Gatekeeper

Disable Gatekeeper since it blocks running 3rd party scripts and apps from github etc. To do so, open Terminal and enter:

sudo spctl --master-disable

Disabling Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia and Tahoe requires additional steps.

Using AirportItlwm instead of Itlwmin macOS Sequoia/Tahoe (optional)

Currently, my EFI is configured to use itlwm.kext for WLAN since it doesn't rewquire root patching with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and works with any version of macOS up to Tahoe. The downsides are it requires an additional app called Heliport to connect to accesspoints and that you can't use WLAN during macOS setup.

If you want use Airportitlwm_Sequoia.kext in macOS Sequoia/Tahoe, you have to apply root patches with OCLP Mod. Make sure to connect the system via LAN so OCLP-Mod can download additionally required ressources.

Config Preparations

Prior to applying Root Patches, you have to adjust some config settings:

• Mount your EFI System Partion
• Open your config.plist
• Change the following Settings:
  • Kernel/Block: Set com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily to true
  • Kernel/Add: Set Itlwm.kext to false
  • Kernel/Add Set AirportItlwm.kext to `true

Applying Root Patches

• Download the latest release of OCLP-Mod
• Install and run OCLP-Mod
• Click the top right button:
  
• It should say "Intel" somewhere in the Chinese text of the Patches that will be applied:
  
• Click the first button from the top to start root patching.
• Additional files required for patching will be downloadded automatically:
  
• Once that's done, patching will commence:
  
• Reboot the system
• Reset NVRAM
• Boot into macOS Sequoia/Tahoe
• WiFi should work now, so should Audio (applies to macOS Tahoe only)

For more detailed instuctions, check my Guide.

Enabling Audio in macOS Tahoe

There are 3 options to enable audio in macOS Tahoe see → Re-enabling Audio in macOS Tahoe beta 2+ for details.

Modify Power Management Settings

Open Terminal and enter the following commands, to adjust Power Management. If you don't want to use Hibernation, use hibernatemode 3 instead:

# Enable hibernatemode 25 (sleep to disk, power off RAM)
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25

# Enable standby (required for hibernation to actually work)
sudo pmset -a standby 1

# Set standby delays (time before entering hibernation)
sudo pmset -a standbydelayhigh 900    # 15 minutes when battery > 50%
sudo pmset -a standbydelaylow 900     # 15 minutes when battery < 50%

# Sleep timings (optional - adjust to preference)
sudo pmset -a displaysleep 10         # Display sleeps after 10 minutes
sudo pmset -a disksleep 10            # Hard disk sleeps after 10 minutes
sudo pmset -a sleep 1                 # System sleeps after 1 minute of inactivity

# Disable wake-causing features
sudo pmset -a powernap 0              # Disable Power Nap
sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0          # Prevent network from waking system
sudo pmset -a proximitywake 0         # Disable wake when iPhone/iPad nearby
sudo pmset -a ttyskeepawake 0         # Prevent remote login from preventing sleep
sudo pmset -a womp 0                  # Disable wake-on-LAN

Test sleep and wake by entering pmset sleepnow. Wait 30 seconds and move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard. The system should wake and the screen(s) should wake when using HibernateMode 3 or 25.

Strengthen Security (optional)

In config.plist, navigate to Misc/Security/SecureBootModel and change it to: Default. But you may have to disable it when updating macOS, otherwise the installer might crash. Ever since the release of macOS Sonoma 14.4, it does not longer work correctly during install.

Enable brightness control for external displays (optional)

There's a new app called MonitorControl which allows controlling the brightness and contrast of attached external displays right from the menu bar and/or keyboard.

Add Eject button for optical drive to Menu Bar (optional)

macOS locks the optical drive sometimes so that you can't open it by pressing the physical eject button – even if no media is present. If you have an Apple Keyboard, you can simply press the Eject key to open the drive.

But if you don't, you can add an Eject button to the menu bar:

• Open Finder and navigate to: System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras
• Double-click on Eject.menu. This adds the Eject button icon to the Menu Bar:
  

Geekbench 5 Benchmarking Results

CPU

macOS:

Test results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23512366

Windows 10:

Test results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/24103178

iGPU

macOS:

I also tested force-loading Apple's GUC firmware (4858 points in the Metal test), but that's no usable option for me since it causes Firefox Tabs to crash. It has no impact on Safari, though.

Windows 10

Maintenance

Adding kext URLs to OCAT

OCAT does not contain all the links to kext repos used in my EFI folder. So in order to fetch updates for them, you need to add them to KextURL.txt.

Instructions

1. Open Finder
2. Press CMD+Shift+G
3. Paste in this path and hit Enter:

   ~/.config/OCAuxiliaryTools/
   

4. Open KextUrl.txt with TextEdit
5. Add the following entries:

   AdvancedMap.kext | https://github.com/notjosh/AdvancedMap
   AMFIPass.kext | https://github.com/bluppus20/AMFIPass
   IntelMausiEthernet.kext | https://github.com/Mieze/IntelMausiEthernet
   

6. Save the file

The next time, you check for kext updates in OCAT (enable the Dev option), the color of the squares in front of the kexts above will no longer be grey (not found) but either red (outdated) or green (up to date). All the kexts coming from the OCLP repo can't be fetched automatically, so they will remain grey.

Credits

• Acidanthera for the OpenCore Bootloader
• Dortania for OpenCore Legacy Patcher
• lzhoang2801 for OpCore Simplify
• ic005k for OC Auxiliary Tools
• CorpNewt for SSDTTime, MMIODevirt, ProperTree and MountEFI
• benbaker76 for Hackintool (and all users who contributed framebuffer patches for it because it was a pita to get the Display Ports working)
• Unknown for USBToolBox
• Brumbaer for CFGLock.efi
• Chris1111 for VoodooHDA-Tahoe