CH9102 Driver support

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CH9102 Driver support

MacOS Big Sur (and maybe earlier) started to natively support the SI Labs CP210x UART controller.

Many Chinese manufacturers have started to replace the CP210x chips with the cheaper CH9102, which has the same footprint otherwise seems to be pin-compatible with the CP210x.

Would Apple please consider supporting the CH9102 in their UART drivers? The current third-party driver may be of questionable origin, and some of us don't want to install third party drivers into kernel space, especially if they are provided from potentially unreputable sources.

Posted on Feb 14, 2022 10:46 AM

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Tesserax

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Feb 14, 2022 12:39 PM in response to fdushin

You're not talking directly to Apple representatives here. We are just fellow Apple-product users. As such, there is nothing we can do to assist you with this.

I suggest that you submit your suggestion directly to Apple here: Product Feedback - Apple

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fdushin Author

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Feb 14, 2022 1:47 PM in response to Tesserax

I appreciate that, thank you, and I have submitted a feature request for MacOS. I am also interested to know if there are any other like-minded individuals who are in the same predicament.

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CH9102 Driver support

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