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PJALM · Oct 18, 2015

giacomoleopardo said:
So, PJALM usb Injector kext is no longer needed. Please, guys, make me a liar. Expecting your tests

I have said this over a week ago now, Injector not needed if you simply just remove unused ports from DSDT. No one listens to me though.

As for that clover patch to bypass the USB port minit, use at your own risk, it's not a good hack nor a good idea.

BTW, you don't need to rename EHC1/ECH2 sinco series 8/9 don't use them. I simply removed them from my DSDT.

giacomoleopardo · Oct 18, 2015

PJALM said:
I have said this over a week ago now, Injector not needed if you simply just remove unused ports from DSDT. No one listens to me though.

Thanks for clarifying once again. I heard you last week and I hear you now, but please note that with this board, removing unnecessary HSxx port from XHC in dsdt.aml is not enough. As previously stated, HS13 didn't show up at all and needs to be re-addressed as tested here in post #448

PJALM said:
As for that clover patch to bypass the USB port minit, use at your own risk, it's not a good hack nor a good idea.

I have no better way to enable all usb's in this board.

PJALM said:
BTW, you don't need to rename EHC1/ECH2 sinco series 8/9 don't use them. I simply removed them from my DSDT.

Thank you. This is very useful: removing the entire Device EH01 and Device EH02 from dsdt solved my bluetooth wake from sleep radically (non need to null EH02 address, since, of course, it no longer exists)

giacomoleopardo · Oct 18, 2015

All tested with Clover 3292.
Note I'm on 10.10.5

EH02 Native

- all ports working, including internal (quick test by attaching device, no speed tests)
- sleep/wakeup working
- shutdown/restart working

Thank you. The point was to test them in El Cap, though. Anyway, due to PJALM's suggestion up here, removing EH01 and EH02 from dsdt does the job wonderfully.
Attached my last DSDT

giacomoleopardo · Oct 18, 2015

Sorry, still on Yosemite here
Could you please post a DSDT with those entries removed as suggested by PJALM which we should use in El Cap?
Ist the kext and the clover entry still needed then?
Thanks in advance

No problem! in post #455 you'll find the new dsdt, as for the clover patch, it's up to you: PJALM and WonkeyDonkey don't use it. That way you need to make usb choises, at least for a board like ours.
The injector kext is no longer needed.

PJALM, still I don't understand why this patch wouldn't be a good idea.

WonkeyDonkey · Oct 18, 2015

giacomoleopardo said:
SOLVED.
Thet way you suggested seems to be right, I mean re-addres the HS13 port. But not enough.
1 - Referring to Method (_ADR, give to HS13 same DSDT structure as HS14
from

Code:

Device (HS13) { [B]Method (_ADR, 0, Serialized) // _ADR: Address { If (LEqual (And (CDID, 0xF000), 0x8000)) { Return (0x0D) } Else { Return (0xFD) } }[/B] Method (_STA, 0, Serialized) // _STA: Status { If (LEqual (And (CDID, 0xF000), 0x8000)) { Return (0x0F) } Else { Return (Zero) } }

to

Code:

Device (HS13) { [B]Name (_ADR, 0x0D) // _ADR: Address[/B] Method (_STA, 0, Serialized) // _STA: Status { If (LEqual (And (CDID, 0xF000), 0x8000)) { Return (0x0F) } Else { Return (Zero) } }

2 - Give to HS13 another Physical Location of Device (PLD). Since I don't know anything about these codes, I tried with the PLD of the three ports that actually don't exist, HS11, HS12 and HS15. Guess what? working with any of those PLD!
from

Code:

Method (_PLD, 0, Serialized) // _PLD: Physical Location of Device { Name (PLDP, Package (0x01) { Buffer (0x10) { /* 0000 */ [B]0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,[/B] /* 0008 */ [B]0x71, 0x0C, 0x80, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00[/B] } })

to

Code:

Method (_PLD, 0, Serialized) // _PLD: Physical Location of Device { Name (PLDP, Package (0x01) { Buffer (0x10) { /* 0000 */ [B]0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,[/B] /* 0008 */ [B]0x69, 0x0C, 0x80, 0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00[/B] } })

taken from HS11. Successfully tested with PLD from HS12 and HS15 as well.
So, PJALM usb Injector kext is no longer needed. Please, guys, make me a liar. Expecting your tests

Please everybody, note that I'm not an expert, this is a try and error process. Be careful about doing this, ok?

EDIT: Almost forgot, If you have no need to use internal USB 2.0 headers, then you can avoid usb limit binary code injected in config.plist\Kernel and Kexts Patch\KextToPatch section (like the evil WonkeyDonkey). On the other hand, if you'd like to have the whole "usb fleet" working (like the good old myself), then you have to add that patch.

Me ? Evil ? :lol:

I kind of take the approach that the more vanilla the better. If a fix can be done in DSDT thats great; do it once then forget about it. Its even better if it means less kext files to manage on the system.

To be realistic about usb, there are so many boards out there that have a whole stack of ports, but how many people use every port at the same time ? I figure that since I have no front panel USB2 on my case, then those internal headers will never be used while I own this board.

Great work on the PLD and port 13 btw. It was to be my next stop had you not tried it already. :thumbup:

WonkeyDonkey · Oct 18, 2015

PJALM said:
I have said this over a week ago now, Injector not needed if you simply just remove unused ports from DSDT. No one listens to me though.

As for that clover patch to bypass the USB port minit, use at your own risk, it's not a good hack nor a good idea.

BTW, you don't need to rename EHC1/ECH2 sinco series 8/9 don't use them. I simply removed them from my DSDT.

I'm with you on this Pjalm, and yes, we do listen to you

Your work on DSDT's and patches for them has been outstanding and saved a heap of trouble for a lot of users of this site and beyond.

Your work continues to be appreciated :thumbup:

giacomoleopardo · Oct 18, 2015

El Capitan pre-install work

With reference to post #401 with the links posted there, and the following posts discussed

ALWAYS make a bootable backup drive of your system SSD/HDD
Update to the latest Clover
In EFI\EFI\CLOVER\kexts\10.10 copy all the kexts you have into EFI\EFI\CLOVER\kexts\10.11, that means
- AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementInfo.kext (not mandatory)
- FakeSMC.kext
- IntelMausiEthernet.kext
Open your EFI\EFI\CLOVER\config.plist with Clover Configurator and do the following changes
- In Boot section uncheck kext-dev-mode=1 (if you have an nVidia Maxwell Graphics Card leave checked nvda_drv=1)
- In Kernel and Kext Patches\KextToPatch section add a line with
  
  - Name* --> AppleUSBXHCIPCI
  - Find* [HEX] --> 83BD8CFEFFFF10
  - Replace* [HEX] --> 83BD8CFEFFFF16
  - Comment --> remove usb limit
  This is not mandatory! If you're not planning to use USB 2.0 internal headers, then skip this step
- In Rt Variables section add
  
  - 0x28 in BooterConfig field
  - 0x3 in CrsActiveConfig
  Attached here, you'll find a confing.plist to follow

DSDT compiling
This is the most important part of the job, at least for this board. I strongly recommend to extract your own DSDT from scratch (AIDA64 Engineer in Windows will be great) and patch it with the following instructions

Open aida_dsdt.aml (aida64 will save it as acpi_dsdt.bin in Windows, simply rename it aida_dsdt.aml in OS X) with MaciASL
MaciASL\Patch\Open 01 - Toleda 8 Series AMI Clean Compile.txt (attached down here in DSDT patches folder) and Apply it
MaciASL\Patch\Open 02 - Toleda 8 Series AMI-HD4600-AMD-nVidia-A1.txt (attached down here in DSDT patches folder) and Apply it
MaciASL\Patch\Open 03 - Insert DTGP (attached down here in DSDT patches folder) and Apply it
Find Device (EHC1) and Device (EHC2) and delete the whole blocks like this
Compile and if this kind of error appears

then remove the blocks the errors refer to

Compile again, no errors should appear

Remove Warnings and Remarks as follows

a) REMARK - Control Method should be made Serialized (due to creation of named objects within)
FIX - Turn the Control Method from NotSerialized to Serialized

b) WARNING - Not all control paths return a value (RDGI)
FIX - Insert Return (Zero) at the end of the block, before the last “}” like this
from

Code:

        Method (RDGI, 1, Serialized)
        {If (LLessEqual (Arg0, 0x5E))
            {
                Store (Add (Add (GPBS, 0x0100), Multiply (Arg0, 0x08)
                    ), Local0)
                OperationRegion (LGPI, SystemIO, Local0, 0x04)
                Field (LGPI, AnyAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
                {
                        ,   30, 
                    TEMP,   1
                }

                Return (TEMP)
            }
    }

to

Code:

        Method (RDGI, 1, Serialized)
        {If (LLessEqual (Arg0, 0x5E))
            {
                Store (Add (Add (GPBS, 0x0100), Multiply (Arg0, 0x08)
                    ), Local0)
                OperationRegion (LGPI, SystemIO, Local0, 0x04)
                Field (LGPI, AnyAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
                {
                        ,   30, 
                    TEMP,   1
                }

                Return (TEMP)
            }
        [B]Return (Zero)[/B]
    }

c) REMARK - Effective AML package length is zero
FIX - Change this

Code:

Return (Package (Zero) {})

into this

Code:

Return (Zero)

Compile again, and no longer Errors, Warnings or Remarks should appear

PAY ATTENTION! Every time you will re-open your compiled DSDT.aml easily you'll bump into these two errors

Simply remove these two lines to compile successfully

Find Device (HS13) and replace the entire block from this

Code:

Device (HS13)
                {
                    Method (_ADR, 0, Serialized)  // _ADR: Address
                    {
                        If (LEqual (And (CDID, 0xF000), 0x8000))
                        {
                            Return (0x0D)
                        }
                        Else
                        {
                            Return (0xFD)
                        }
                    }

                    Method (_STA, 0, Serialized)  // _STA: Status
                    {
                        If (LEqual (And (CDID, 0xF000), 0x8000))
                        {
                            Return (0x0F)
                        }
                        Else
                        {
                            Return (Zero)
                        }
                    }

                    Method (_UPC, 0, Serialized)  // _UPC: USB Port Capabilities
                    {
                        Name (UPCP, Package (0x04)
                        {
                            0xFF, 
                            Zero, 
                            Zero, 
                            Zero
                        })
                        If (LNot (And (PR2, 0x1000)))
                        {
                            Store (Zero, Index (UPCP, Zero))
                        }

                        Return (UPCP)
                    }

                    Method (_PLD, 0, Serialized)  // _PLD: Physical Location of Device
                    {
                        Name (PLDP, Package (0x01)
                        {
                            Buffer (0x10)
                            {
                                /* 0000 */   0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
                                /* 0008 */   0x71, 0x0C, 0x80, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                            }
                        })
                        CreateBitField (DerefOf (Index (PLDP, Zero)), 0x40, VIS)
                        If (LNot (And (PR2, 0x1000)))
                        {
                            And (VIS, Zero, VIS)
                        }

                        Return (PLDP)
                    }
                }

to this

Code:

Device (HS13)
                {
                    Name (_ADR, 0x0D)  // _ADR: Address
                    Method (_STA, 0, Serialized)  // _STA: Status
                    {
                        If (LEqual (And (CDID, 0xF000), 0x8000))
                        {
                            Return (0x0F)
                        }
                        Else
                        {
                            Return (Zero)
                        }
                    }

                    Method (_UPC, 0, Serialized)  // _UPC: USB Port Capabilities
                    {
                        Name (UPCP, Package (0x04)
                        {
                            0xFF, 
                            Zero, 
                            Zero, 
                            Zero
                        })
                        If (LNot (And (PR2, 0x2000)))
                        {
                            Store (Zero, Index (UPCP, Zero))
                        }

                        Return (UPCP)
                    }

                    Method (_PLD, 0, Serialized)  // _PLD: Physical Location of Device
                    {
                        Name (PLDP, Package (0x01)
                        {
                            Buffer (0x10)
                            {
                                /* 0000 */   0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
                                /* 0008 */   0x69, 0x0C, 0x80, 0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                            }
                        })
                        CreateBitField (DerefOf (Index (PLDP, Zero)), 0x40, VIS)
                        If (LNot (And (PR2, 0x2000)))
                        {
                            And (VIS, Zero, VIS)
                        }

                        Return (PLDP)
                    }
                }

MaciASL\Patch\Open 04 - PJALM's USB power patch.txt (attached down here in DSDT patches folder) and Apply it
Find Device (HS11), Device (HS12), Device (HS15) and remove the whole blocks, like this for Device (HS11)
If you don't need internal USB 2.0 header, then remove the whole block of Device (HS05), Device (HS06), Device (HS07), Device (HS08) as well. This allows you to avoid USB limit binary patch in config.plist\Kernel and Kexts Patches\KextToPatch section
Compile and Save as DSDT.aml (File Format: ACPI Machine Language Binary)

Proceed to update with Tony's guide or you can prepare your own usb bootable drive for a fresh El Cap install. In this case just remember:
- USB config.plist should have the Kernel and Kext Patches\KextToPatch section empty, otherwise it could give troubles during the installation process
- If you have an nVidia Maxwell card you'll need to boot with nv_disable=1 option

Attachments:

aida_dsdt.aml extracted from aida64 Engineer from Windows 10
config.plist with usb limit remove binary patch
DSDT Patches folder
compiled DSDT.aml including Device (HS05), Device (HS06), Device (HS07), Device (HS08)
ASRock Z87E ITX USB mappature.jpg

Credits
PJALM
RehabMan
wegface
Mieze
WonkeyDonkey

WonkeyDonkey · Oct 18, 2015

I would go with that summary, yes.

:thumbup:

WonkeyDonkey · Oct 18, 2015

Anyone know where the SMC version is set in Clover ?

iMac14,2 profile sets it to 2.15f2.

I tried changing it in FakeSMC to the correct version but it stays the same. I don't see it in the config file either.

giacomoleopardo · Oct 18, 2015

WonkeyDonkey said:
Anyone know where the SMC version is set in Clover ?

iMac14,2 profile sets it to 2.15f2.

I tried changing it in FakeSMC to the correct version but it stays the same. I don't see it in the config file either.

Don't know actually. I would ask Slice in Clover's repo.
Perhaps it needs something changed in the Clover source code, then recompile

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