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GenericUSBXHCI kext please

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Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to get USB 3.0 on the ASM1042 working on El Capitan.

Thanks
 
Thats disappointing.

I just updated to El Cap, and the USB 3.0 port stopped working completely. No devices detected whatsoever whether USB2/3.

2x Renesas USB 3.0 ports on a Dell N5110

Does the new kext have an AllowAnyXHCI option?

Hoping for a solution soon because my laptop only has 1 USB 2.0 port.
 
Chocoholic said:
Thats disappointing.

I just updated to El Cap, and the USB 3.0 port stopped working completely. No devices detected whatsoever whether USB2/3.

2x Renesas USB 3.0 ports on a Dell N5110

Does the new kext have an AllowAnyXHCI option?

Hoping for a solution soon because my laptop only has 1 USB 2.0 port.
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No solution for NEC/Renasas USB3 that I know of.
 
I understand the appeal of new hardware to everyone involved in driver creation. Yet I also think that much of the work that you and others have done has little (or in most cases I dare say nothing) to do with the whole 'selling new stuff' priorities that underpin most commercial driver development --- so I gather it makes much sense to maintain GenericUSBXHCI for El Capitan, especially if you consider how much hardware with NEC/Renesas USB 3.0 chips is already out there and how little performance has improved in the past few years on mainstream CPUs --- something that more or less renders three or four year old systems at the very least admirable performers even on modern OSes and software, including El Capitan. There's a lot of people that have no reason to upgrade, save for missing drivers. And that is a shame.

Now, I understand that the 'challenge' of supporting a relatively old controller that is not heavily used in modern boards is not exactly enticing to many people, but I assure you it is exactly this kind of thing that makes this community tick and I would say much of what underpins the hacker spirit that makes so many projects possible.

In any case, let me just thank you for your work and ask: would it be too much for you, given your experience with both GenericUSBXHCI and Apple's revamp in El Capitan, to give us an outline of what would be required to bring support for all these third-party USB controller users to El Capitan?
 
smixreg said:
I understand the appeal of new hardware to everyone involved in driver creation. Yet I also think that much of the work that you and others have done has little (or in most cases I dare say nothing) to do with the whole 'selling new stuff' priorities that underpin most commercial driver development --- so I gather it makes much sense to maintain GenericUSBXHCI for El Capitan, especially if you consider how much hardware with NEC/Renesas USB 3.0 chips is already out there and how little performance has improved in the past few years on mainstream CPUs --- something that more or less renders three or four year old systems at the very least admirable performers even on modern OSes and software, including El Capitan. There's a lot of people that have no reason to upgrade, save for missing drivers. And that is a shame.

Now, I understand that the 'challenge' of supporting a relatively old controller that is not heavily used in modern boards is not exactly enticing to many people, but I assure you it is exactly this kind of thing that makes this community tick and I would say much of what underpins the hacker spirit that makes so many projects possible.

In any case, let me just thank you for your work and ask: would it be too much for you, given your experience with both GenericUSBXHCI and Apple's revamp in El Capitan, to give us an outline of what would be required to bring support for all these third-party USB controller users to El Capitan?
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May not be possible without a complete rewrite. The code in GenericUSBXHCI relies on quite a bit of undocumented stuff in prior versions of OS X. Now everything has changed.

The source is available if you want to attempt. Not worth it for me...
 
RehabMan said:
May not be possible without a complete rewrite. The code in GenericUSBXHCI relies on quite a bit of undocumented stuff in prior versions of OS X. Now everything has changed.

Not worth it for me...
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I have seen a NEC expresscard "work" natively--but it mounts very s l o w l y and allows for file transfers very s l o w l y and dismounts, too, very s l o w l y. That said, something is working natively. However, the 4530s's single USB 3 only powers up. It doesn't even report in System Properties.

I've been looking at various postings that report the same problem and there is plenty of desire to fix this but no expertise.

So far, when I attempt some of the solutions that work for desktops, nothing happens either to improve the NEC expresscard's performance or breathe life into the 4530s's USB3 Luckily things work on the Window side of my laptop and I can map the four USB ports, 1,2,3 = the USB 2s and the USB 3 = 1. But how to bring that data back to 10.11 and play around with the dead USB 3 port has been elusive. I can't write code per se, but I like to play with DSDT, the info.plixt, etc. (I fixed my desktop USB 3 problem that way.)

I guess what people need on this issue is some direction--or this dictum from a knowledgeable source: It's dead, Jim (to paraphrase Dr. McCoy).

And despite the many people who have the later builds of the 4530s with the USB 3, there hasn't been much reportage (or disappointment shared) on the matter. Probably because few have made the jump from Yosemite and their laptops are fine. And they may be waiting for 10.11.1 to come out, since people with real Macs are having problems with USB 3 hubs, etc.

I read somewhere that the beta for the next update will address USB 3 issues.

Oh, will there be an El Capitan Probook category soon?
 
FranzWerfel said:
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I guess what people need on this issue is some direction--or this dictum from a knowledgeable source: It's dead, Jim (to paraphrase Dr. McCoy).
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Probably.

Oh, will there be an El Capitan Probook category soon?
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I don't think so. It is not necessary.
 
Is there any solution available yet for non-Intel Renasas USB 3.0 chipset for El Cap?
 
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