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Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021)
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IndySun
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Sidenote, on bkurtz.io, tapping the burger menu opens 4 choices, one of which is light/dark look. Both looks are typical, the site is black/white (more or less). With dark the background to the 4 choices is black, with white letters. But on light, the background blurs with white letters. The light looks is hard to see, blurred isnt blurred enough, and font is small/skinny. Is that what everyone else sees?
reader9274
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Beautiful tool, much better than having to press multiple buttons with some specific timed order and hold your tongue at the right angle like you're summoning some Apple genie
mproud
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> On Apple Silicon machines, the DFU port is closest to the screen on the left side.
Nope, not always: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120694
userbinator
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Intel macs do not seem to support this tool as a host.
That's because they're close to a standard PC architecture with UEFI, while Apple Silicon is basically an iPhone/iPad.
tgma
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As a host seems to refer to the machine that executes the tool not the machine that is being DFU'd.
Intel Macs with T2 actually do have a DFU process as the primary processor is in fact T2, which loads UEFI image in RAM once it validates boot situation and resets the Intel chip.