macOS-Uke is an unfinished research project that boots full macOS 26.5 (build 25F71) on the Xiaomi Pad 7, powered by the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3. Built on macOS-ForSheng and UniXNU, it reaches the Finder desktop rather than stopping at recovery: the kernel starts on all eight cores, WindowServer and the login screen run stably, and the system has a Dock, menu bar, wallpaper, widgets, and a working touch pointer. Its most ambitious component is graphics support: an Adreno 732 port combines an Adreno 740 kernel driver, a Metal plugin, a Metal-to-Vulkan translator, and Turnip. WindowServer can composite with GPU acceleration and display blur and transparency. A persistent shader cache also reuses some pipelines on subsequent boots.
The system remains far from a polished tablet experience. GPU fence waits time out even when the graphics processor is mostly idle, rotation can produce a mosaic, and warm reboots sometimes hang; cold boots work. Battery reporting, thermal CPU control, and HiDPI scaling are also absent. The repository provides build and flashing instructions, scripts, patches, GPU and touch-driver code, and troubleshooting lessons, including fixes for GPU memory-cache errors and reboot loops. Installation requires users to supply their own tablet firmware, Apple software and development components, device-specific identifiers, and generated files; these are not included. The project therefore documents a substantial technical proof of concept, not a ready-to-use macOS installation.
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