Open source cross-platform OpenCore Auxiliary Tools（OCAT)

[Guest 5T33Z0]

Okay, thanks. I think I installed the wrong version before.

 

I found something else:

 

- The Description for Kernel > Quirk > IncreasePciBarSize is wrong. It's 2 GB instead of 4GB!

 

(From the Documentation: "IncreasePciBarSize: Allows IOPCIFamily to boot with 2 GB PCI BARs").

[ic005k]

42 minutes ago, 5T33Z0 said:

The Description for Kernel > Quirk > IncreasePciBarSize is wrong. It's 2 GB instead of 4GB!

I'm sorry I haven't updated these descriptions in a long time. Do you have an automated way of thinking about this content, at the moment I'm doing it all by hand.
More upgrade leads would be welcome.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

48 minutes ago, ic005k said:

I'm sorry I haven't updated these descriptions in a long time. Do you have an automated way of thinking about this content, at the moment I'm doing it all by hand.
More upgrade leads would be welcome.

 

I am not a programmer, sorry.

 

The raw text of the manual is in the OpenCore repo as well, isn't it?

 

Maybe you can do this:

 

1. Turn the settings/ quirks/option of the app into a search rule and then look it up in the source code of the manual

2. If it finds it, it should grab the text after the term "Description" and copy paste it into the descriptions of your app

 

[Guest 5T33Z0]

Just some feedback. Latest auto-update worked withput issues! Yay!

[junaed.rx]

Hello @ic005k,

 

I have a suggestion to make. Now, if my computers OCAT is few updates back from the release then it will show the update available with the latest updates changelog. but will download the immediately next version, not the latest one. then it will again show update available until the latest update is reached. Could this be possible to update to the latest version from any point of the previous version. Thank you.

 

Regards

Junaed

[ic005k]

@junaed.rx It's okay, it's normal, because you missed some updates in the middle, once you upgrade to the latest version, after that there will be no more of this phenomenon you mentioned.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

@ic005k OCAT killed my config AGAIN!!!

 

This time after adding SSDT-EHCx-DISABLE.aml and adding a comment

 

It actually wrote parts of the Definiton block of the SSDT into the header of the config:

This resource fork intentionally left blank   ��SSDTm�ACDTNOEHCxINTL0	! H\[�RCRG���[�RCRG
EH2DEH1D _INI�_OSI
DarwinpEH1DpEH2D<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE

 

[ic005k]

@5T33Z0 Please attach your complete config.plist file before it was corrupted and I'll analyze it. Also welcome more detailed information, including the procedure, whether other software also opened this config.plist, etc.?

[ic005k]

@5T33Z0 Please list the plist editors that you commonly use.

[ic005k]

@5T33Z0 You can open a plist file with xcode, and then open it with OCAT. Any changes made on OCAT will be displayed in real time on XCODE, and if there is a problem with saving the file on OCAT, it will be immediately visible on xcode.

Edited October 18, 2021 by ic005k

[Guest 5T33Z0]

6 hours ago, ic005k said:

@5T33Z0 Please attach your complete config.plist file before it was corrupted and I'll analyze it. Also welcome more detailed information, including the procedure, whether other software also opened this

config.plist, etc.?

 

Procedure

• Mounted EFI
• Copied the SSDT-EHCx-DISABLE.aml into OC/ACPI folder
• Opened config.plist with OCAT (via right-click)
• Dragged and dropped the SSDT in the ACPI Add list, because it was not added automatically.
• Added a comment
• saved
• restarted the system

Luckily I have a working Clover config as well. This time, I could reconstruct the config, because it only broke the head and cut off only a few lines at the end.

 

The attached plist is the reconstructed one without serials etc.

config_cleaned.plist

[ic005k]

48 minutes ago, 5T33Z0 said:

because it was not added automatically.

If you opened config.plist with OCAT beforehand, it will be automatically added to config.plist when you copy the file to the ACPI directory.

Thank you very much for providing such detailed information, I will continue to research and analyze this issue, in the meantime, please take care to backup your config.plist.

[ic005k]

@5T33Z0 The latest version of OCAT has a new verification mechanism when opening and saving files. If there is a problem when saving a file, there will be a prompt to determine the correctness of the OCAT saved file.
I will continue to keep an eye on the issues you mentioned.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

Thanks. I love the new monochrome category icons, btw!

[Guest 5T33Z0]

Trying to create a new Snaphot in ProperTree gave me this error:

The same happens if I copy over my existing Keys into an empfty sampl.plist:

 

Edited October 21, 2021 by 5T33Z0

[ic005k]

@5T33Z0 Please attach these documents and explain the procedure in detail. I will see if I can reproduce these errors.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

@ic005k I installed python on macOS Monterey 12.0.1 then I build ProperTree App and tried to open the config .plist.

[ic005k]

5 hours ago, 5T33Z0 said:

ProperTree App and tried to open the config .plist.

Everything seems to be fine on my end, also with macOS 12.0.1.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

I love that OCAT now also updates kexts!

 

But I would make the buttons in lists white:

 

 

Otherwise it look as if the function is not available (greyed-out)

Edited October 22, 2021 by 5T33Z0

[ic005k]

10 minutes ago, 5T33Z0 said:

But I would make the buttons in list white:

It will be optimized again later, any ideas or effects are welcome, thanks.

[Guest 5T33Z0]

Please incorporate an UNDO function for the list editors (DeviceProperties, ACPI, Kexts, etc)

[ic005k]

3 hours ago, 5T33Z0 said:

Please incorporate an UNDO function for the list editors (DeviceProperties, ACPI, Kexts, etc)

This function is always present, except for adding entries (you can use the delete entry function to achieve UNDO).

[Guest 5T33Z0]

1 hour ago, ic005k said:

This function is always present, except for adding entries (you can use the delete entry function to achieve UNDO).

 

Undo does not work if you accidentally delete devices from Device Properties.

[ic005k]

10 minutes ago, 5T33Z0 said:

Undo does not work if you accidentally delete devices from Device Properties.

This has been working fine. You can try using the Undo and Redo buttons on the toolbar. The shortcut keys for OCAT's Undo and Redo are Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2 (see under the "Edit" menu for details), and the purpose of defining the shortcut keys is to distinguish them from the text editor's Undo and Redo.

[jmacie]

@ic005k you app has allowed me to upgrade four different opencore 6.0 efi's. I followed the instructions in the other thread and it was very good except for the boot protect notation for upgrading <version 6. OC. But I am past that. My question is I follow this thread and see you've incorporated updating kexts, but after my OCAT upgrade I can't see how it's done. Can you update the instruction process on the other thread --

Thanks, you really have stepped things up for Opencore, and I hope you'll get many donations or accolades! Thank you,  jm