BrcmPatchRAM VS Sinetek-rtsx

Compare BrcmPatchRAM vs Sinetek-rtsx and see what are their differences.

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BrcmPatchRAM Sinetek-rtsx
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1,003 127
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5.3 1.8
4 months ago almost 3 years ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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BrcmPatchRAM

Posts with mentions or reviews of BrcmPatchRAM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.

Sinetek-rtsx

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sinetek-rtsx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-20.
  • Some touchscreen load problem wish could get help.
    3 projects | /r/hackintosh | 20 Aug 2022
    SD card reader (cant't be load on boot sometimes with cholonam/Sinetek-rtsx, or can't be formatt with 0xFireWolf/RealtekCardReader);
  • Dell Latitude E7470. BigSur 11.6.5/OC 0.7.9
    4 projects | /r/hackintosh | 4 Apr 2022
    CPU: i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz/Skylake GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520/Skylake (Iris 550) RAM: 12GB SKHynix DDR4@2300 Laptop Make and Model: Dell Latitude E7470 (TouchScreen) Audio Codec: Realtek ALC3235 Ethernet Card: Intel I219-LM (IntelMAUSI 1.0.7) Wifi/BT Card: Intel 8260 Touchpad and touch display devices: ALPS/Alpine (V8) TrackPad, and ELANtech Touchscreen (via VoodooI2C). Brightness Keys and Ambient Light Sensors all work. Storage: Toshiba 256GB NVME - KXG50ZNV256G BIOS revision: 1.32.4 Guides Used - OC Guide and a lot of googling/head scratching trying to get multi-touch/gestures working on the TrackPad. First time i've actually had to use CPUFriend in OC as I couldn't get any sort of reasonable battery life or power management. Also the first Dell Laptop i've done that wasn't a Sandy/IvyBridge. What's working: Almost Everything - including iServices/iMessage, touchscreen w/multi-touch and gestures. SD card (via This version of the Sinetek Kext. Touchpad only has basic features. What isn't working: WWAN (not using anyways) Alps Trackpad only has basic mouse features. Wasted too much time on it. Voodoo Input/PS2 is stable.
  • Hackintosh Intel NUC8 (Intel BOXNUC8I5BEH i5-8259U) with OpenCore running macOS Monterey (12.1) [Credit: GitHub/zearp]
    4 projects | /r/hackintosh | 5 Jan 2022
    For the micro sdcard reader you can try https://github.com/0xFireWolf/RealtekCardReader/releases or https://github.com/cholonam/Sinetek-rtsx.
  • Big Sur 11.5.2 on ASUS A456UR success finally!
    1 project | /r/hackintosh | 18 Sep 2021
    For card reader i use this kext https://github.com/cholonam/Sinetek-rtsx/releases works in my acer laptop. I think this only works on realtek cardreader which most laptop has. It may or may not work for you.
  • [SUCCESS] XPS 9350 running Monterey. Pretty sweet.
    2 projects | /r/hackintosh | 29 Jul 2021
    For the SD card reader, check out https://github.com/cholonam/Sinetek-rtsx, which is forked from the fork of the original. It seems to be working fine on Big Sur, so hopefully it works on Monetary.
  • SDCARD, Trackpad, AUDIO MUTE Opencore 0.6.6 HP Zbook g3
    2 projects | /r/hackintosh | 22 Apr 2021
    Dis you download sinetek-rtsx from here : https://github.com/cholonam/Sinetek-rtsx
  • Big Sur 11.2.1 on Lenovo X260
    1 project | /r/hackintosh | 16 Feb 2021
    SD card reader - Try this kext.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BrcmPatchRAM and Sinetek-rtsx you can also consider the following projects:

AirportBrcmFixup - An open source kernel extension providing a set of patches required for non-native Airport Broadcom Wi-Fi cards.

RealtekCardReader - An unofficial Realtek PCIe/USB-based SD card reader driver for macOS

IntelBluetoothFirmware - Intel Bluetooth Kernel Extensions for macOS

VoodooSMBus - i2c-i801 driver port for macOS X + ELAN SMBus macOS X driver for Thinkpad T480s, L380, P52

build-repo

HP-Elite-X2-G1-Hackintosh - Resources for running macOS on the HP Elite X2 1012 G1

OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide

one-key-cpufriend - Generate customized CPUFriendDataProvider.kext for dynamic macOS CPU power management

RestrictEvents

BrightnessKeys - Handler for brightness keys without DSDT patches

CPUFriend - Dynamic macOS CPU power management data injection