[Guide] Creating a Custom SSDT for USBInjectAll.kext

[CaptainChunk]

@RehabMan - I'm hoping that maybe you can shine some light on this...

I'm in the preliminary stages of creating a custom SSDT for my Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 Ultra Motherboard (to hopefully address sleep not functioning properly for me in 10.13.6) and so far, I have logged the locations of every physical port available on the board using a USB 3.0 hub I had lying around, per your guide:

USB 2.0/1.1 and USB 3.0 Ports

HS01 <01 00 00 00> - USB2 device on front panel USB3 (left)
HS02 <02 00 00 00> - USB2 device on front panel USB3 (right)
HS03 <03 00 00 00> - USB2 device on IO panel USB3 (bottom-left)
HS04 <04 00 00 00> - USB2 device on IO panel USB3 (bottom-right)
HS05 <05 00 00 00> - USB2 device on IO panel USB3 (top-left)
HS06 <06 00 00 00> - USB2 device on rear panel USB3 top-right
HS07 <07 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
HS08 <08 00 00 00> - Motherboard USB2 header #1 (eliminate)
HS09 <09 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
HS10 <0a 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
HS11 <0b 00 00 00> - Motherboard USB2 header #2 (eliminate)
HS12 <0c 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
HS13 <0d 00 00 00> - USB2/3 device on IO panel USB2 (right)
HS14 <0e 00 00 00> - USB2/3 device on IO panel USB2 (left)
SS01 <11 00 00 00> - USB3 device on front panel USB3 (left)
SS02 <12 00 00 00> - USB3 device on front panel USB3 (right)
SS03 <13 00 00 00> - USB3 device on IO panel USB3 (bottom-left)
SS04 <14 00 00 00> - USB3 device on IO panel USB3 (bottom-right)
SS05 <15 00 00 00> - USB3 device on rear panel USB3 (top-left)
SS06 <16 00 00 00> - USB3 device on rear panel USB3 (top-right)
SS07 <17 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
SS08 <18 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
SS09 <19 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
SS10 <1a 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
USR1 <0f 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)
USR2 <10 00 00 00> - (unused/eliminate)

Total Ports Injected: 26
Trimmed Target: 14​

USB 3.1 (Type-A) and USB 3.1/Thunderbolt 3 (Type-C) Ports

According to Gigabyte, these 2 ports are supplied by the onboard Alpine Ridge controller and not the Z170 chipset. Both ports appear to be attached at pci-bridge@2, under a device ID defined as pci8086, 15b6@0 in IOReg instead of being listed under XHC like the rest of the USB ports. Thus, I’m not exactly sure what I need to do with these two ports when constructing my custom SSDT, if anything.

AppleUSB20XHCIPort@00100000 <01 00 00 00> - USB2 device attached to Type-C port
AppleUSB20XHCIPort@00200000 <02 00 00 00> - USB2 device attached to Type-A port
AppleUSB30XHCIPort@00300000 <03 00 00 00> - USB3 device attached to Type-C port
AppleUSB30XHCIPort@00400000 <04 00 00 00> - USB3 device attached to Type-A port

Total Ports Injected: 4

**NOTE: I currently don't have a Thunderbolt 3 device to test with, so I'm not entirely certain whether a Thunderbolt device would assign a dedicated port or not. I may order an adapter to test things with a couple of my old TB2 dongles for FW800 and Ethernet that I have lying around.
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If I do need to do something special for these, am I correct in assuming that because these ports are supplied by a separate controller that they're on their own 15-port limit?

My apologies in advance if you think I may have missed anything in your guide. This is my first attempt at a Hackintosh. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[RehabMan]

I am obviously misunderstanding something. I thought if I DISABLED, or REMOVED all the Clover port limit patches, OR use the the -uia_ignore_rmcf boot flag then I am effectively enabling all the available USB ports?

But I suppose this must mean I'm hitting the Apple limit of 16 (24?), that's why I don't see the SSPx ports?

So finally, please confirm that there exists a Clover patch that raises the limit to 24 (or X > 16), and I just have to find it?

-uia_ignore_rmcf has nothing to do with the 15 port limit imposed by the macOS XHC kexts.

 

[tecemac]

-uia_ignore_rmcf has nothing to do with the 15 port limit imposed by the macOS XHC kexts.

Yes agreed. I just wanted to impart the information that I believed that I was setting up my system to appropriately test USB injection.

So I still have the basic problem of not being able to set the port limit to something greater than 15, despite checking the Clover patches several times.

Should I remove the copy of USBInjectAll.kext and get a fresh copy/version ?
What am I doing wrong, so that I fail to raise the port limit to greater than 15?

I should point out that I was successful in raising the port limit on the now broken Gaming 5 motherboard and getting the USBInjectAll.kext to work with it's USB ports. But now I have replaced it with the GA-Z97X Gaming 7 mobo, and I just can't get the port limit to raise. I am using the same exact USBInjectAll.kext on this Gaming-7 as I did on the Gaming-5 mobo.

I was successful in getting my ASRock mobo USB injector to work correctly too.

Is there something I'm not aware of limiting raising the port limit beyond 15 ? Do you agree, by looking in the bootlog.txt, that the port limit raise patches seem to be applied - but are just not working?

 

[RehabMan]

@RehabMan

OK I see that in IOREGs that the port count is set to 15 - i.e. limited. I have applied ALL combinations of the config_patches.plist from your repo. I can see the patches getting applied in the bootlog.txt file (attached).

But I can't figure out what is disabling the port limit patch, or why this is failing to raise to 24?
Can you help?

attached is my latest debug attempt.

New patches for 10.13.6 just added to the repo only a few minutes ago.
Check again.

 

[tecemac]

New patches for 10.13.6 just added to the repo only a few minutes ago.
Check again

WORKS!!

Thanks, @RehabMan, you're the MAN. Many many thanks, I was going nuts.

 

[kevin335200]

            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>disable port limit in XHCI kext (credit RehabMan, based prior PMHeart patch)</string>
                <key>MatchOS</key>
                <string>10.13.6</string>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>g32IDw+DpwQAAA==</data>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>g32ID5CQkJCQkA==</data>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>change 15 port limit to 26 in XHCI kext (10.13.6) (credit PMHeart)</string>
                <key>MatchOS</key>
                <string>10.13.6</string>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>g32IDw+DpwQAAA==</data>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>g32ID5CQkJCQkA==</data>
            </dict>

Why are these two patches same? Is it disabled or changed to 26?

 

[davidpesce]

New-ish to hackintosh. I've got everything working except for the bluetooth on my broadcom pcie card (wifi works fine). My guess is that it's something with the usb ssdt setup. Followed the guide and hoping someone can take a look at my plist (or any other files you need).

Let me know if there's anything else that'll help troubleshoot. Appreciate it!

Edit: added dsl file.

 

[Feartech]

New-ish to hackintosh. I've got everything working except for the bluetooth on my broadcom pcie card (wifi works fine). My guess is that it's something with the usb ssdt setup. Followed the guide and hoping someone can take a look at my plist (or any other files you need).

Let me know if there's anything else that'll help troubleshoot. Appreciate it!

problem reporting files are incomplete, please re read post 1

 

[CaptainChunk]

New-ish to hackintosh. I've got everything working except for the bluetooth on my broadcom pcie card (wifi works fine). My guess is that it's something with the usb ssdt setup. Followed the guide and hoping someone can take a look at my plist (or any other files you need).

Let me know if there's anything else that'll help troubleshoot. Appreciate it!

Actually, you'll want to post your SSDT-UIAC-ALL.dsl (or whatever name you gave it) file for proper troubleshooting of your custom SSDT. The USB port assigned to your Bluetooth card should have a value of 255 defined under "USB Connector" (common mistake is someone to leave this value at 0 or 3).

 

[davidpesce]

Actually, you'll want to post your SSDT-UIAC-ALL.dsl (or whatever name you gave it) file for proper troubleshooting of your custom SSDT. The USB port assigned to your Bluetooth card should have a value of 255 defined under "USB Connector" (common mistake is someone to leave this value at 0 or 3).

Thanks for the pointer. I've tried it with 0, 3, and 255 without luck. But I retested it with 255 and added the .dsl file to my first post.