cdf / innie

Make PCIe drives appear internal

Innie

A kernel extension for making all PCIe drives appear internal in macOS.

Alternative

An alternative to Innie is to add the built-in device property for each drive. This can be accomplished with OpenCore.

Dependency

Innie uses MacKernelSDK.

innie's Issues

Ventura support

Hi, thanks for this solution!

Is Ventura supported? I'm trying to make NVME drives on a PICe card appear as internal on a Dell T7820 running Ventura, but they still show up as external. Is this OpenCore Kext definition correct?

<dict>
        <key>Arch</key>
        <string>Any</string>
        <key>BundlePath</key>
        <string>Innie.kext</string>
        <key>Comment</key>
        <string>Innie.kext</string>
        <key>Enabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>ExecutablePath</key>
        <string>Contents/MacOS/Innie</string>
        <key>MaxKernel</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>MinKernel</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>PlistPath</key>
        <string>Contents/Info.plist</string>
</dict>

The Kext itself is located at:

% ls -la EFI/OC/Kexts/Innie.kext
total 12
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 jjzazuet  staff   512 Dec  3  2022 .
drwxrwxrwx  1 jjzazuet  staff  1024 Nov  4 14:36 ..
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 jjzazuet  staff   512 Nov  4 14:36 Contents

Thanks!

v1.3.0 requires reboot after install to work on Catalina 10.15.7

Seems latest version Innie v1.3.0 errors out in Catalina with SIP disabled. ==> Solved, see below....

Any suggestions?

Does not work on big sur 11.2.1?

Does not work on big sur 11.2.1

Please Fix this bug, Thank you!

Doesnt work on big sur

any chance of getting this working on big sur?

Compilation error

@cdf I tried to fix the path to the new SDK, but this error is still present and the compilation fails:

//
//  kern_innie.hpp
//  Innie
//
//  Copyright © 2020 cdf. All rights reserved.
//

#ifndef kern_innie_hpp
#define kern_innie_hpp

#include <Library/LegacyIOService.h>.                         _### **'Library/LegacyIOService.h' file not found**_
#include <IOKit/IODeviceTreeSupport.h>

class INNIE {
public:
    void init();
    void deinit();
    
private:
    void internalizeDevices();
    void updateIcon(IORegistryEntry *propEntry);
    void updateInterconnect(IORegistryEntry *propEntry);
    void updateProtocolCharacteristics(IORegistryEntry *propEntry);
    
    struct ClassCode {
        enum : uint32_t {
            SATADevice     = 0x010601,
            NVMeDevice     = 0x010802,
        };
    };

};

#endif /* kern_innie */