In another question on this forum (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/124775) eskimo stated that launching a system extension from an daemon is not the right approach and that the OSSystemExtensionRequest.activationRequest API should be called from an App. My question is, does this same restriction apply to a LaunchAgent started App? If so, to ensure activation as soon as possible is the only option to use a SMLoginItemSetEnabled helper to start the App on login?

Hello, I am porting a PCI driver written with IOKit to the new PCIDriverKit framework. I am able to perform DMA with a contiguous buffer allocated inside the dext (with IOBufferMemoryDescriptor::Create). But I would also like to perform DMA to and from a buffer allocated by an application. What I exactly want to do is: Allocate an aligned buffer in the app (with e.g. posix_memalign) Send the pointer to this buffer to the dext In the dext, retrieve the list of pages descriptors to be able to perform DMA without copy into (or from) this buffer. In IOKit, we can use methods such IOMemoryDescriptor::withAddressRange and IODMACommand::gen64IOVMSegments to map and retrieve the scatter gather list but I cannot find any information on how to do this in a dext with the PCIDriverKit framework. Can anybody help me on how to do that?

How do I adjust the latency timer for the AppleUSBFTDI driver? I am developing an app in Swift using Xcode on a MacBook Pro M1 running Big Sur, for clinical brain-computer interface (BCI) research. The app needs very low-latency streaming from an external USB device. The external device is a headset which connects via Bluetooth to an FT231X chip mounted on a USB-Serial dongle. The FT231X chip reads timestamped EEG data from the headset. The issue is that the AppleUSBFTDI driver is buffering the packets coming in from the headset, which causes jitter in the timestamps. Typically, with proprietary drivers from FTDI, the solution is to reconfigure them to reduce the latency timer to 1ms. The Info.plist is edited to add new key/value pairs. Is there a similar solution for Apple's built-in driver?

While in a text input area, when a Bluetooth keyboard is connected to a IOS device and the On Screen Keyboard is "hidden", is there a way to start SIRIs dictation function? (Besides activating the On Screen Keyboard and click on the microphone button)

Hi , I am trying to write dext code for my existing Kext , i see "IOMemoryDescriptor::withAddress" being used , I dont find any alternatives in "DriverKit", Is there any others ways to achieve this, Any input is appriciated , Thanks, revan

I have requested an Endpoint Security entitlement through this form:https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/system-extension/How can I see that my request is done?How can I check that I am able to use this entitlement?Is it should be listed in my App ID Configuration Capabilities?

Will the External accessory get deprecated, or is it deprecated now?Please reply as the same features are not provided by CoreBluetooth, when connecting with Bluetooth Classic devices.