SimpleRTK5 - RTL8126 5G Ethernet Driver

[laobamac_yyds]

SimpleRTK5 porting has been completed, and the follow-up can be discussed here.

 

Repo：https://github.com/laobamac/SimpleRTK5

 

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Edited January 28 by laobamac_yyds

[laobamac_yyds]

Support at least macOS 10.15, pass the test in macOS 26

[fabiosun]

 

If user uses OCLP for wifi..it is mandatory to add new block you said in other place

 

 

 

Thank you @laobamac_yyds

Edited January 28 by fabiosun

[laobamac_yyds]

DescV3 and DescV4 contain a large amount of additional data.

 

Additional implementation of PTP and RSS is required. This is extremely complex on macOS.

[fabiosun]

@laobamac_yydsmay i ask if do you use also Clover Bootloader?

 

If so or you know how to produce for it the same patch we need in opencore if we use OCLP Mod to unlock wifi with old IOSkywalk block and, for Realtek Ethernet 8126A users also AppleEhthernetRL block?

Clover misses (for now) AppleEthernetRL block

Thank you!

Edited January 31 by fabiosun

[laobamac_yyds]

2 hours ago, fabiosun said:

@laobamac_yydsmay i ask if do you use also Clover Bootloader?

 

If so or you know how to produce for it the same patch we need in opencore if we use OCLP Mod to unlock wifi with old IOSkywalk block and, for Realtek Ethernet 8126A users also AppleEhthernetRL block?

Clover misses (for now) AppleEthernetRL block

Thank you!

Hello, my friend.

To use SimpleRTK5 to drive RTL8126 network card, AppleEthernetRL must be blocked.

 

But this driver is not located inside the DriverKit, but integrated into IONetworkFamily, so we cannot disable it through startup parameters. We can only choose OpenCore's built-in KernelPatch to delete it from memory during the Prelinked phase.

 

As for how Clover needs to be operated, I haven't researched it yet because I no longer use this bootloader myself.But according to common sense, Clover's startup behavior is relatively backward, and it must only rely on OpenRuntime implementation to prevent such high-level drivers, so the bundle ID must be hard coded inside the source code.

 

You can clone the Clover repository, search for com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily, find the location where OpenRuntime is called to remove the extension, and add AppleEthernetRL blocking in the following code format.And compile and use it.Perhaps effective.

 

I will also check if there are any other plans during my free time, and I will reply to you if there is any progress.

 

Best regards.

laobamac

Edited January 31 by laobamac_yyds

[fabiosun]

@laobamac_yyds Thank you 

I hope some Clover Devs with this your explanation could do a proper block for this