Clover Patches for working PCI sd card reader(Work in Progress)

For a long time apple has always used USB SD card reader devices. For this reason there is little support for PCI sd card readers. Within the past two years or so apple has included driver to support one PCI sd card reader with the following Broadcom device pci14e4,16bc. I am mainly interested in this because one of my systems has a PCI SD card reader. It's a laptop Toshiba A505 S6005 using i3 330m HM55 chipset. Now I've search the web all over for a way to get this card reader recognized in OS X with only one good hit and it involves editing the kext itself and reinstalling and rebuilding caches. Credit for coming up with this method goes out to Joe82 at another site. So I felt like the same principle could be ported over to a clover kext to patch method since I don't wanna be repatching the kext at every update. So on to the fixes.

The kext of interest here is located in /S*/L*/Extensions/AppleSDXC.kext . We need to patch the info.plist and the binary. Clover can do all of this for us. So for my system it has three card reader devices, I guess for different kinds of cards.



Since I want all of them to work, I need to use the sub deviceID and the sub vendorID. So I need to change
pci14e4,16bc ==> pci1179,ff1e.



This is the specific line we wish for clover to change in the info.plist. For me it was like this


Then we need to change the binary to correspond with the info.plist. For me it was like this.


So looking in system information we can now see OS X recognizing it.



I tested on Yosemite 10.10.5

Please test this on you guys systems to let me know if its repeatable and working.
Now I need some more expert help with this because no sd card I have is getting recognized. I have tested the cards in other computers so i know the cards are good. Additionally I know the card reader works because it works in windows. I thought that maybe there was some whitelist on the mac SMBIOS I'm using but I couldn't find any reference to that in AppleSDXC.kext.
Let me know what you guys come up with.

Credits
Joe82
Slice and other clover developers

Update: 12/19/16 13:35 est
I noticed with these patches enabled in clover it broke my audio after sleep and my LCD backlight brightness fixes. After disabling the clover patches everything was restored to normal. Still more work to do here.

I have a PCIe card reader too (not sure but can tell it from DPCIManager).
Do following your guide but not works.
Tried with both Vendor/Device and SubVendor/SubDevice pairs show in PDCIManager because not sure which to be used is correct.
Do you have any suggestion?

P/S: my hardware is Dell precision M7510, tried on Sierra 10.12.2.

Thank you for this. It is working like a charm for me.

HP EliteBook 820 G3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.4.

But I took com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC as name instead of AppleSDXC only.
I have audio but backlight issues after sleep, too. But hopefully we get to a solution here...




UPDATE:
Although it is detected, if I insert an SD card nothing happens... So I will disable this for now until I found a solution that is working 100%.

tyraenor said:

Thank you for this. It is working like a charm for me.

HP EliteBook 820 G3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.4.

But I took com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC as name instead of AppleSDXC only.
I have audio but backlight issues after sleep, too. But hopefully we get to a solution here...

Code:

<dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>Card Reader Info.plist (Sub)</string>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>
                PHN0cmluZz5wY2kxNGU0LDE2YmM8L3N0cmluZz4=
                </data>
                <key>InfoPlistPatch</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC</string>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>
                PHN0cmluZz5wY2kxMDNjLDgwN2M8L3N0cmluZz4=
                </data>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>Card Reader Binary (Sub)</string>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>
                cGNpMTRlNCwxNmJj
                </data>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC</string>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>
                cGNpMTAzYyw4MDdj
                </data>
            </dict>

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UPDATE:
Although it is detected, if I insert an SD card nothing happens... So I will disable this for now until I found a solution that is working 100%.

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I do appreciate your testing I actually had the same problem I haven't had much more time to work on it. However it does make me want to dig a little deeper to see if I can get it going better. I had issues with it breaking sleep and my backlight patches which is strange since it was all done in the DSDT so there is definitely more work to be done here. I originally thought this thread would be flooded with interests but i guess i was wrong.

FYI this driver com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC is the same as AppleSDXC.kext

tyraenor said:

Thank you for this. It is working like a charm for me.

HP EliteBook 820 G3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.4.

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Could you possibly PM me on your process to get the 820 G3 working? I am not having much luck, no mouse/kb, not detecting HDDs etc

HARRYBEEEE said:

Could you possibly PM me on your process to get the 820 G3 working? I am not having much luck, no mouse/kb, not detecting HDDs etc

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Please read the rules :

The Rules said:

Members may not solicit nor provide assistance via private communications. This forum was created to provide help by posting questions and getting answers. By not publicly discussing you are depriving others of solutions to problems they may encounter

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P1LGRIM said:

Please read the rules :

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Not to mention it has nothing to do with the purpose of this thread

HARRYBEEEE said:

Could you possibly PM me on your process to get the 820 G3 working? I am not having much luck, no mouse/kb, not detecting HDDs etc

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Just follow this guide: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...i-hotpatch-10-11.189416/page-613#post-1485705