See #6691 (comment) . In short, PyTorch officially deprecated Intel Macs back in January 2024. ExecuTorch is PyTorch, so I imagine we will follow suit.

Right. I don't think the goal is to add support. But instead to make documentation/errors more human readable, as suggested in the Alternative section above:

• Return a message stating "this platform is not supported" while running PyTorch on Intel Macbooks
• Updating documentation to add a disclaimer or in pre-requisites that PyTorch does not work anymore on Intel Macbooks.

I’d be down to work on this!

@swolchok @keyprocedure @ali-khosh

ExecuTorch itself actually works with Intel Macs -- as in users should be able to install ExecuTorch from source. The reason it is "not working" is that torch package is not available on Intel Mac via pypi. However, we should be able to compile torch from source and install on Intel Mac first.

Instead of upright saying, "we don't support Intel Macs", what's your thought on adding a documentation on how-to do compile torch and ExecuTorch from source on Intel Macs.

I’d be happy to help with documentation for building from source if that’s the direction we move in.