Surface-Pro-5-OpenCore

This repo lets you download the EFI for the Surface Pro 5 lineup.

[!NOTE] I no longer have access to my Surface Pro 5. Any new bugs won't be straight forward, and PRs are welcome.

[!CAUTION] The EFI is ONLY educational purposes and is not affiliated with neither Microsoft, Apple, nor the computer maker. You are responsible for the damage caused to your machine.

Credits

• Thanks to @MrHomebrew for the creation of the Surface Pro 5's EFI. Even though your EFI is really messed up, but I managed to fixed it.
• Thanks to @Xiashangning for the BigSurface kext. This makes the type cover, touch, stylus works flawlessly on this machine!

  Post-install procedure is required.

• Thanks to @jlempen for adding microSD card support to the system, and eventually worked on this machine.
• Thanks to @0xFireWolf for your amazing RealtekCardReader project which brings microSD card support.

Screenshot

This EFI contains:

• Mapped graphics & USB
• Monthly bug fixes from OpenCore and associates
• Android tethering support (HoRNDiS)

Installation (for Windows):

1. Download the latest EFI via Releases
2. Prepare USB via OpenCore Guide ONLY MOVE com.apple.recovery.boot FOLDER
3. Move the downloaded EFI folder to USB
4. Boot via USB and install macOS

Bugs

• No camera support

  This is to be expected since BigSurface does not implement camera support yet.

• No Windows Hello support

  be for real when did macOS support face id

• No Wi-Fi & Bluetooth support

• No DRM acceleration

• Hotter than usual

Tested versions

• macOS Catalina
• macOS Big Sur
• macOS Monterey
• macOS Ventura
• macOS Sonoma
• [BETA] macOS Sequioa