Apple Silicon to Apple Silicon VDM utility

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Overview

Apple Silicon to Apple Silicon VDM tool

This tool lets you get a serial console on an Apple Silicon device and reboot it remotely, using only another Apple Silicon device running macOS and a standard Type C cable.

Disclaimer

I have no idea what I'm doing with IOKit and CoreFoundation -marcan

Copyright

This is based on portions of ThunderboltPatcher and licensed under Apache-2.0.

  • Copyright (C) 2019 osy86. All rights reserved.
  • Copyright (C) 2021 The Asahi Linux Contributors

Thanks to t8012.dev and mrarm for assistance with the VDM and Ace2 host interface commands.

Building

Install the XCode commandline tools and type make.

Usage

Connect the two devices via their DFU ports. That's the rear port on MacBooks and the port nearest to the power plug on Mac Minis.

You need to use a USB 3.0 compatible (SuperSpeed) Type C cable. USB 2.0-only cables, including most cables meant for charging, will not work, as they do not have the required pins. Thunderbolt cables work too.

Run it as root (sudo ./macvdmtool).

Usage: ./macvdmtool <command>
Commands:
  serial - enter serial mode on both ends
  reboot - reboot the target
  reboot serial - reboot the target and enter serial mode
  dfu - put the target into DFU mode
  nop - do nothing

Use /dev/cu.debug_console on the local machine as your serial device. To use it with m1n1, export M1N1DEVICE=/dev/cu.debug-console.

For typical development, the command you want to use is macvdmtool reboot serial. This will reboot the target, and immediately put it back into serial mode, with the right timing to make it work.

Comments
  • Detect Intel vs ARM

    Detect Intel vs ARM

    Hi,

    thank you for this amazing tool. I'm trying to create a script around it to be able to have some kind of reinstall station that would detect if a macbook is connected and then install the latest ipsw. I have it kinda worked out but I want to be able to detect an Intel mac. Do you think it could be possible to implement?

    Thanks!

    opened by jstaubr 2
  • README: Update for Monterey and new MBPs

    README: Update for Monterey and new MBPs

    • Mention ~that the serial device is not available on Monterey~ how to get the serial device on Monterey
    • Document the location of the debug port on 14"/16" MBPs

    (I checked the location on a 14" MBP and assume it’s the same on the 16"…)

    opened by VinDuv 0
  • README: mention SIP & Studio port location

    README: mention SIP & Studio port location

    This document currently assumes the reader's already disabled SIP to regenerate the kernel cache, mention the possible error if it's not disabled and how to disable it.

    The Studio's DFU port is the right-most USB-C port, next to the ethernet port.

    opened by kevans91 0
  • Running into issues running vdmtool dfu

    Running into issues running vdmtool dfu

    I'm still learning about macOS and not to familiar with it but when im trying to use this tool, im running into an issue would anyone be able to help me troubleshoot? Screen Shot 2022-03-23 at 11 02 16 PM Screen Shot 2022-03-23 at 11 03 20 PM any ideas?

    opened by vujonathn 0
  • It also works with PowerDelivery USB 2.0 type C cables

    It also works with PowerDelivery USB 2.0 type C cables

    Hello :wave: !

    While trying out this project we found out that USB C 2.0 cables with Power Delivery only work well.

    I'm opening this issue because we have read the warning about SS cables, and we thought ours was but it wasn't :joy: We scratched our head until we understood that this cable had the required CC pins for high power charging. Those cables are a bit less expensive than the real USB 3.0 type C cables.

    Thanks for the awesome tool ! :heart:

    opened by sywesk 1
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