Dear Misc@, With the 7.8 release there were a number of fresh messages on the list about 2015-ish intel Macbooks affected by the ACPI timeout bug. The fix for these models is well known and documented and patching methods have been circulated again on the list, but for convenience we (h3artbl33d and I) decided to prebuild some patched installer images and make them available:
https://mirror.openbsdonapple.wiki/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/amd64/ This is just the standard amd64 release with the two relevant lines in acpi.c commented out to get rid of the 10,000-second timeout issue. Everything else is "stock"...apart from the ANSI art we also included among the files on the mirror ;) So this is hopefully a simpler way to get OpenBSD running on models like the A1465, A1466, A1502. This -stable release was built today (2025-10-29) so it includes all `syspatch` corrections to errata (001-004). We will endeavour to make new builds available whenever there are new patches to --stable. For those wondering, the built installers have not yet been signed with signify, but they will be, hopefully in the next 48 hours. 7.7 is not available just yet, if there is a need, send me an e-mail and we'll build it. Hope that this helps other people like myself, using older Apple HW! Best wishes, rqm
