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Kext still exist on macos



Kind of: they’ve been deprecated for 4 years and you have to disable SIP to load them.

https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

They’ve added system extension mechanisms for the most common needs trying to balance the various things people use kexts for against the impact on security, performance, and reliability many kexts had.




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