RealtekCardReaderFriend
A Lilu plugin that makes System Information recognize your Realtek card reader as a native one (by 0xFireWolf)
CPUFriend
Dynamic macOS CPU power management data injection (by acidanthera)
| RealtekCardReaderFriend | CPUFriend | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 11 | |
| 70 | 508 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 0.0 | 3.9 | |
| 11 months ago | 11 months ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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RealtekCardReaderFriend
Posts with mentions or reviews of RealtekCardReaderFriend.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.
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The Dell Inspiron 15 5567 based MacBook Pro is back!
For the SD Card reader try RealtekCardReaderFriend it's fully working on my DELL Precision 5520 !
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"Devices" section in OpenCore config.plist. Re: O2 Micro SD Card Reader
Did you try RealtekCardReader.kext and Realtek Card Reader Friend? yet? There's a ton of supported devices on there.
- macOS Monterey on a T490. Biggest flex is that it worked first try.
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Finished Dell Latitude 5480 Big Sur | Monterey + any solutions
RealtekCardReaderFriends
CPUFriend
Posts with mentions or reviews of CPUFriend.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.
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[HELP] After change SMbios to mac pro7,1 frequency limit at 4.4Ghz
Do you mind trying to deactivate AppleCpuFmCfgLock and AppleXcpmCfgLock in your config.plist (Kernel) but also add those 2 kext : https://github.com/dortania/bugtracker/issues/190 (CpuFriendDataProvider.kext) along with its dependency CpuFriend.kext? https://github.com/acidanthera/CPUFriend
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[HELP] CPU pinned at max possible frequency Dell XPS 13 9350
How are you doing your power management? Have you tried CPUFriend ??
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i9 13900KF + PowerColor 6900XT Workstation
Guides used: Used the following repo as a starting point since the board is basically identical https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/EFI-GIGABYTE-Z690-AORUS-ELITE-AX-12900K-RX6900XT Additional info/resources from: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/ https://chriswayg.gitbook.io/opencore-visual-beginners-guide/advanced-topics/using-alder-lake https://github.com/acidanthera/CPUFriend https://github.com/dortania/bugtracker/issues/190 Use case: The machine is used as my main work machine (Software developer working from home) and hobby/gaming PC.
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Dell Latitude E7470. BigSur 11.6.5/OC 0.7.9
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.
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OpenCore Alder Lake (12th-Gen Intel) Hackintosh Guidance
See acidanthera/CPUFriend: Dynamic macOS CPU power management data injection
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Installed Monterey 12.1 with opencore 0.7.6 on Asus H97M-Plus and 4790
By NPM I meant CPU power management. Since you spoof CPU (Haswell support dropped for v12), your CPU PM is off. You need CPUFriend to make it work again.
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Finished Dell Latitude 5480 Big Sur | Monterey + any solutions
CPUFriend
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Big Sur 11.5.1 - using OpenCore 0.7.2 / iMac15,1
Since this CPU is not from iMac15,1 family, Native CPU Power Management won't work. You may want to check CPUFriend.
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Quick question - Clover hotkeys for dumping ACPI tables (F4,F5), do they still work?
Always do your research. https://github.com/acidanthera/CPUFriend
- Hackintosh logs me out on running heavy tasks
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RealtekCardReaderFriend and CPUFriend you can also consider the following projects:
Legacy-Kexts - Repo for misc legacy kexts
CPUFriendFriend - Py script to walk frequency vectors and leverage acidanthera's CPUFriend ResourceConverter.
BrightnessKeys - Handler for brightness keys without DSDT patches
Hackintosh-Gigabyte-Z690-UD-DDR4 - EFI folder for hackintosh, Z690, 12600KF, 32GB DDR4
one-key-cpufriend - Generate customized CPUFriendDataProvider.kext for dynamic macOS CPU power management
OpenCorePkg - OpenCore bootloader
EFI-GIGABYTE-Z690-AORUS-ELITE-AX-12900K-RX6900XT - EFI for Hackintosh: Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX, Intel i9 12900K (8p+8e+ht), RX 6900XT, 4x 16GB DDR4 4133Mhz with XMP enabled and Fenvi BCM94360
AppleALC - Native macOS HD audio for not officially supported codecs
RestrictEvents
OCSysInfo - Basic, high-level and efficient CLI for discovering, outputting and parsing hardware information from the current system.
GIGABYTE-Z690I-Hackintosh - OpenCore Hackintosh EFI For asrock Z690m-itx
RealtekCardReaderFriend vs Legacy-Kexts
CPUFriend vs CPUFriendFriend
RealtekCardReaderFriend vs BrightnessKeys
CPUFriend vs Hackintosh-Gigabyte-Z690-UD-DDR4
RealtekCardReaderFriend vs CPUFriendFriend
CPUFriend vs one-key-cpufriend
RealtekCardReaderFriend vs OpenCorePkg
CPUFriend vs EFI-GIGABYTE-Z690-AORUS-ELITE-AX-12900K-RX6900XT
RealtekCardReaderFriend vs AppleALC
CPUFriend vs RestrictEvents
RealtekCardReaderFriend vs OCSysInfo
CPUFriend vs GIGABYTE-Z690I-Hackintosh