Marvell (Aquantia) 10 Gb Ethernet support thread

I have the Syba 10 Gbe card and while it worked out of the box without any patch in earlier macOS versions, since Catalina 10.15.4 and now with Big Sur 11.0, a kext patch is now required for every AQN-107, AQC-107 or AQC-107S based card. I have also used OEM Aquantia Action AQN-107 card which is also working flawlessly. The patch is also working on latest version of macOS Big Sur 11.x

Add this under config.plist Kernel -> Patch section If you are not comfortable to edit plist yourself, use OpenCore Configurator for GUI based approach.: Credits: @Mieze

Tested on OpenCore 6.0+ versions. It may work on Clover but try it yourself.

Kext to patch
com.apple.driver.AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion

Find
41C70424 00000000 E9

Replace
41C70424 01000000 E9

comment
Marvell AQC107 10GBE Patch

Firmware for AQN107 & AQC107 cards

https://www.marvell.com/support/downloads.html#

Patch for Monterey by Mieze

Recent versions of OpenCore have Aquantia Quirk you can enable and 107 chipset based cards should work. For newer 113 chipset based cards, SSDT would be required. I have Asus Z690 ProArt Creator and it has 113 chipset. I disabled it and used Syba PCIe 107s card which works. But I am slowly drifting away from Hackintosh scene as it's highly likely that once Apple ends support for Intel based Macs in 3-4 years, everything will die down. Unless we replace our systems with ARM based SOCs and someone manages to do similar using Apple's ARM based macOS.

Edited July 29, 2022 by d5aqoep

d5aqoep · December 13, 2017

Ohh boy!! I removed the ASUS XG-C100C from the attic and inserted into my Hackintosh running HS 10.13.2 and behold

It's getting detected correctly. But network settings shows as network cable unplugged

It is working correctly in Windows 10 with driver downloaded from ASUS site so there is no cable unplugged problem.

We are so near!!!!!

Mieze · December 13, 2017

At first glance it looks like the kext's code checks the device subsystem's id and vendor for Apple provided devices and this might be the reason why it refuses to work properly with your ASUS card but this needs further investigation as I only took a quick look at the code.

Mieze

ydeng · December 14, 2017

Ohh boy!! I removed the ASUS XG-C100C from the attic and inserted into my Hackintosh running HS 10.13.2 and behold

It's getting detected correctly. But network settings shows as network cable unplugged

It is working correctly in Windows 10 with driver downloaded from ASUS site so there is no cable unplugged problem.

We are so near!!!!!

Did you see something like "Starting AXGE:" in kernel log?

Mieze · December 14, 2017

@d5aqoep: Please post the output of ifconfig -v in Terminal and your kernel logs showing a complete boot sequence with the ASUS card installed. Thanx in advance!

Mieze

d5aqoep · December 14, 2017

iMac:~ d5aqoep$ ifconfig -v
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 index 1
eflags=12000000<ECN_DISABLE,SENDLIST>
options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
link quality: 100 (good)
state availability: 0 (true)
timestamp: disabled
qosmarking enabled: no mode: none
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 index 2
eflags=1000000<ECN_ENABLE>
state availability: 0 (true)
qosmarking enabled: no mode: none
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280 index 3
eflags=1000000<ECN_ENABLE>
state availability: 0 (true)
qosmarking enabled: no mode: none
XHC20: flags=0<> mtu 0 index 4
eflags=41000000<ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
state availability: 0 (true)
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
XHC0: flags=0<> mtu 0 index 5
eflags=41000000<ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
state availability: 0 (true)
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
XHC1: flags=0<> mtu 0 index 6
eflags=41000000<ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
state availability: 0 (true)
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 index 7
eflags=41000180<TXSTART,RXPOLL,ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
options=64<VLAN_MTU,TSO4,TSO6>
ether 02:03:93:5b:9c:01
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
media: autoselect
status: inactive
type: Ethernet
state availability: 0 (true)
scheduler: FQ_CODEL
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 index 8
eflags=412008c0<ACCEPT_RTADV,TXSTART,ARPLL,NOACKPRI,ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
ether 88:63:df:c9:6c:37
inet6 fe80::80f:7d5:6ddf:4732%en1 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x8
inet 192.168.1.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
media: autoselect
status: active
type: Wi-Fi
link quality: 100 (good)
state availability: 0 (true)
scheduler: FQ_CODEL (driver managed)
uplink rate: 233.10 Mbps [eff] / 273.78 Mbps
downlink rate: 233.10 Mbps [eff] / 273.78 Mbps [max]
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304 index 9
eflags=41000080<TXSTART,ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
ether 0a:63:df:c9:6c:37
media: autoselect
status: inactive
type: Wi-Fi
state availability: 0 (true)
scheduler: FQ_CODEL (driver managed)
link rate: 10.00 Mbps
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
awdl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1484 index 10
eflags=413e0080<TXSTART,LOCALNET_PRIVATE,ND6ALT,RESTRICTED_RECV,AWDL,NOACKPRI,ECN_ENABLE,FASTLN_ON>
ether f2:b5:e9:d7:e2:a5
inet6 fe80::f0b5:e9ff:fed7:e2a5%awdl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
media: autoselect
status: active
type: Wi-Fi
state availability: 0 (true)
scheduler: FQ_CODEL (driver managed)
link rate: 10.00 Mbps
qosmarking enabled: yes mode: none
utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 2000 index 11
eflags=1002080<TXSTART,NOAUTOIPV6LL,ECN_ENABLE>
inet6 fe80::6ca6:a9e7:2f00:befb%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
agent domain:ids501 type:clientchannel flags:0xc3 desc:"IDSNexusAgent ids501 : clientchannel"
state availability: 0 (true)
scheduler: FQ_CODEL
qosmarking enabled: no mode: none

Here is how it appears in System Profiler

I am unable to manually select speed and autoselect is the only option available.

Mieze · December 14, 2017

@d5aqoep: The interface is still down. Try to enable it. In Terminal type "sudo ifconfig en0 up" in order to enable it. Please report back what happens after that. Good luck!

Mieze

d5aqoep · December 14, 2017

@d5aqoep: The interface is still down. Try to enable it. In Terminal type "sudo ifconfig en0 up" in order to enable it. Please report back what happens after that. Good luck!

Mieze

Nothing happened. Network cable still unplugged. It works correctly if I boot into Windows.

Mieze · December 14, 2017

Nothing happened. Network cable still unplugged. It works correctly if I boot into Windows.

What about the kernel logs? Are there any error messages which explain what happened?

Mieze

d5aqoep · December 14, 2017

What about the kernel logs? Are there any error messages which explain what happened?

Mieze

Here it is

2017-12-14 21:14:48.207775+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) IO80211Controller::createIOReporters 0x95d71e0dd32e47a1

2017-12-14 21:14:48.208085+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) CCFlags: 0x0, CCLevel: 5 ConsoleFlags: 0x0, ConsoleLevel: -1

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209133+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (corecapture) No Service found 1000002c3

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209135+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (corecapture) configureInterests - nElements <= 0!

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209139+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (corecapture) Failed to configure interests

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209147+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) IO80211Controller::addSubscriptionForThisReporterFetchedOnTimer() Failed to addSubscription for group Chip subgroup Bytes Transferred driver 0x95d71e0dd32e47a1 - data underrun

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209151+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) IO80211ControllerMonitor::configureSubscriptions() failed to add subscription

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209264+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) CCFlags: 0x0, CCLevel: 5 ConsoleFlags: 0x0, ConsoleLevel: -1

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209310+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) CCFlags: 0x0, CCLevel: 5 ConsoleFlags: 0x0, ConsoleLevel: -1

2017-12-14 21:14:48.209334+0530 0xea Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (IO80211Family) IO80211Controller::start _controller is 0x95d71e0dd32e47a1, provider is 0x95d71e0c566c9ca1

2017-12-14 21:14:48.216301+0530 0xdc Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion) WARNING: using bogus hardcoded station address

2017-12-14 21:14:48.234582+0530 0xdc Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion) AssertMacros: status, file: /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion/AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion-16.30.11/AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion/if_axge.cpp, line: 5785, value: 0

2017-12-14 21:14:48.234654+0530 0xdc Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion) AssertMacros: status, file: /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion/AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion-16.30.11/AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion/if_axge_kdb.cpp, line: 71, value: 0

Mieze · December 14, 2017

@d5aqoep: Thanks for the logs. I will check the code in order to find out what these messages mean.

Mieze

Mieze · December 14, 2017

@d5aqoep: Initialization of the chip fails but I'm still unsure why.

Try booting with kernel parameter "apple-axge-debug=0xff" and send me the kernel logs again.

Mieze

d5aqoep · December 15, 2017

Working now. Check 1st post.

d5aqoep · December 15, 2017

@d5aqoep: Initialization of the chip fails but I'm still unsure why.

Try booting with kernel parameter "apple-axge-debug=0xff" and send me the kernel logs again.

Mieze

Forum is acting up a bit and not allowing me to edit my post but I have found out that the mac address which 10.13.2 is showing is not that of my ASUS XG-C100C card.

Windows shows totally different mac address.

We just need kext patch for clover to start up this card.

Mieze · December 15, 2017

Forum is acting up a bit and not allowing me to edit my post but I have found out that the mac address which 10.13.2 is showing is not that of my ASUS XG-C100C card.

Windows shows totally different mac address.

We just need kext patch for clover to start up this card.

I disassembled the code which tries to read the permanent MAC address from the chips register space and compared it with the sources of the linux driver. The address you've got is a default value which is used when getting the real MAC address fails. From my own driver projects I know that this is something which usually results from a DSDT problem making it impossible for the driver to access the hardware. Are you injecting a patched DSDT/SDDT? Does your Clover config file include the fix regions patch?

Mieze

d5aqoep · December 15, 2017

I disassembled the code which tries to read the permanent MAC address from the chips register space and compared it with the sources of the linux driver. The address you've got is a default value which is used when getting the real MAC address fails. From my own driver projects I know that this is something which usually results from a DSDT problem making it impossible for the driver to access the hardware. Are you injecting a patched DSDT/SDDT? Does your Clover config file include the fix regions patch?

Mieze

I am not using any DSDT/SSDT patches. My EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched folder is empty. I am unsure if my Clover config includes fix regions patch.

Slice · December 16, 2017

I am not using any DSDT/SSDT patches. My EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched folder is empty. I am unsure if my Clover config includes fix regions patch.

If not patched DSDT then no need to patch regions.

mikeboss · December 18, 2017

the source code for the linux driver can be downloaded from ASUS. maybe this'll help?

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/XG-C100C/DR_XG_C100C_5005_Linux.zip

d5aqoep · December 27, 2017

Any progress on this?

Mieze · December 27, 2017

the source code for the linux driver can be downloaded from ASUS. maybe this'll help?

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/XG-C100C/DR_XG_C100C_5005_Linux.zip

I used the source code from https://www.kernel.org

Any progress on this?

No, but please send me a complete ACPI dump of your machine and an IOReg dump (use IORegistryExplorer V3.0.2 to create it) with the card installed.

Mieze

ydeng · December 29, 2017

I used the source code from https://www.kernel.org

No, but please send me a complete ACPI dump of your machine and an IOReg dump (use IORegistryExplorer V3.0.2 to create it) with the card installed.

Mieze

Linux driver loops through BARs to map IO memory: https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.14.9/source/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_pci_func.c#L121

MacOS uses kIOPCIConfigBaseAddress0 (0x10) directly: 0x18ca calls mapDeviceMemoryWithRegister(kIOPCIConfigBaseAddress0),

__ZN27AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion14setup_slave_ioEv: // AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion::setup_slave_io()

0000000000001872 pushq %rbp ; CODE XREF=__ZN27AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion5startEP9IOService+249

0000000000001873 movq %rsp, %rbp

0000000000001876 pushq %rbx

0000000000001877 pushq %rax

0000000000001878 movq %rdi, %rbx

000000000000187b movq 0x140(%rbx), %rdi

0000000000001882 movq (%rdi), %rax

0000000000001885 movl $0x1, %esi

000000000000188a callq *0x8d8(%rax) // __ZN11IOPCIDevice18setBusMasterEnableEb

0000000000001890 movq 0x140(%rbx), %rdi

0000000000001897 movq (%rdi), %rax

000000000000189a movl $0x1, %esi

000000000000189f callq *0x8c8(%rax) // __ZN11IOPCIDevice15setMemoryEnableEb

00000000000018a5 movq 0x140(%rbx), %rdi

00000000000018ac movq (%rdi), %rax

00000000000018af xorl %esi, %esi

00000000000018b1 xorl %edx, %edx

00000000000018b3 callq *0x8d0(%rax) // __ZN11IOPCIDevice11setIOEnableEbb

00000000000018b9 movq 0x140(%rbx), %rdi

00000000000018c0 movq (%rdi), %rax

00000000000018c3 movl $0x10, %esi

00000000000018c8 xorl %edx, %edx

00000000000018ca callq *0x908(%rax) // __ZN11IOPCIDevice27mapDeviceMemoryWithRegisterEhj

00000000000018d0 movq %rax, 0x150(%rbx)

00000000000018d7 testq %rax, %rax

00000000000018da je loc_192f // jump to failure or get virtual address from memory map and save to 0x658(%rbx)

The registers seem to be offset by 0x10, linux reads register 0x374 for MAC address.

https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.14.9/source/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c#L396

MacOS reads 0x364,

__ZN27AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion10get_lladdrEv: // AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion::get_lladdr()

000000000000292c pushq %rbp

... ...

loc_2a48:

0000000000002a48 movl $0x364, %esi ; CODE XREF=__ZN27AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion10get_lladdrEv+125

0000000000002a4d addq 0x658(%rbx), %rsi

0000000000002a54 leaq var_2C(%rbp), %r14

0000000000002a58 movq %rbx, %rdi

0000000000002a5b movq %r14, %rdx

0000000000002a5e call __ZN27AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion9reg_get32EPjS0_ ; AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion::reg_get32(unsigned int*, unsigned int*)

0000000000002a63 movl $0xa0, %esi

0000000000002a68 addl (%r14), %esi

0000000000002a6b movl %esi, (%r14)

0000000000002a6e leaq var_20(%rbp), %rdx

0000000000002a72 movl $0x8, %ecx

0000000000002a77 movq %rbx, %rdi

0000000000002a7a call __ZN27AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion7ram_getEjPhm ; AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion::ram_get(unsigned int, unsigned char*, unsigned long)

0000000000002a7f movl %eax, %r14d

0000000000002a82 testl %r14d, %r14d

Linux writes some random stuff https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.14.9/source/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c#L385

before reads MAC address.

d5aqoep · December 31, 2017

I used the source code from https://www.kernel.org

No, but please send me a complete ACPI dump of your machine and an IOReg dump (use IORegistryExplorer V3.0.2 to create it) with the card installed.

Mieze

Sorry for late reply,

Here is my IOReg. No idea how to get ACPI dump.

d5aqoep’s IOReg.zip

TheRacerMaster · December 31, 2017

Here is my IOReg. No idea how to get ACPI dump.

Press F4 at the Clover boot screen, your original ACPI tables will be dumped to EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched.

Mieze · December 31, 2017

@d5aqoep and ydeng: Thanks for the IOReg dump. The BARs might be the right approach. According to the IOReg dump, the chip has 3 device memory areas pointing to a 64K space (function unknown), a 4K space which points most likely to the MSI-X vector space (irrelevant to macOS) and a 4M space. One of them, either the 64K or the 4M space must be the one pointing to the chip's control register space. Provided the order they appear in IOReg corresponds to the BARs order, the 64K space would be the first and the one Apple's driver is using but it could be the wrong BAR. We could make the driver use the correct BAR with a patch but in order to create it, we need to know the physical layout of the BARs (order and if they are 32bit or 64bit BARs).

Can someone post a dump of the chip's PCI config space (created with lspci under Linux or macOS or RW-everyting under Windows)?

Mieze

d5aqoep · January 1, 2018

Mieze, on 01 Jan 2018 - 12:42 AM, said:

@d5aqoep and ydeng: Thanks for the IOReg dump. The BARs might be the right approach. According to the IOReg dump, the chip has 3 device memory areas pointing to a 64K space (function unknown), a 4K space which points most likely to the MSI-X vector space (irrelevant to macOS) and a 4M space. One of them, either the 64K or the 4M space must be the one pointing to the chip's control register space. Provided the order they appear in IOReg corresponds to the BARs order, the 64K space would be the first and the one Apple's driver is using but it could be the wrong BAR. We could make the driver use the correct BAR with a patch but in order to create it, we need to know the physical layout of the BARs (order and if they are 32bit or 64bit BARs).

Can someone post a dump of the chip's PCI config space (created with lspci under Linux or macOS or RW-everyting under Windows)?

Mieze

Happy New Year everyone.

Here is the screenshot of RW-everything ad PCI dump one is raw and other is binary. If something else, let me know.

rw-everythng.zip

Marvell (Aquantia) 10 Gb Ethernet support thread

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