trx40 [Discussion] - TRX40 Bare Metal - Vanilla Patches

[Arrakis]

7 hours ago, thenightflyer said:

@Arrakis Please can you share the EFI you use with your Designarex?

 

@thenightflyer

Hello

Here is my EFi "OpenCore Debug.0.6.3" / Catalina (no tested for Big Sur)

This is for a Gigabyte card: TRX40 Designare (BIOS 1.0.0.4)

You must create your own MMIO Whitelist and generate an SMBIOS. (IMacPro1.1)

GPU in slot 1.

The Titan Ridge card must be in slot 4.

gigabyte TRX40 Designare.zip

[thenightflyer]

Thanks

[fabiosun]

@Arrakis

-v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=1 swd_panic=1

latest two boot args useful for?

could you explain?

thank you

[Arrakis]

2 hours ago, Driftwood said:

Are you getting reliable audio sync at above 48K (ie 96, 192)?

@Driftwood 

This only concerns the USB output which I am not using.

On the HDMI outputs of monitors and Blackmagic 4k Ultra-Mini this setting is non-existent.😙

[Arrakis]

1 hour ago, fabiosun said:

@Arrakis

-v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=1 swd_panic=1

latest two boot args useful for?

could you explain?

thank you

@fabiosun

I can't explain it because I don't understand all of them. I've been on the hack for a month.

Considering your mastery of the thing if you briefly explain to me why it is necessary to remove.

I remove especially if it doesn't serve me well.

I am in favor of a lightweight config.plist.

You already made the remark to me for alcid = 1

Edited November 25, 2020 by Arrakis

[fabiosun]

@Arrakis
if your system is stable you can avoid to use any of those boot alcid not useful for our trx40 internal audio

also for usb audio is not useful

would leave only -v to see verbose just in case

also some kext is not useful I think

mcedisabler? Without have you a kp?

I do not think so

also smcamdprocessor kext not useful if you use latest version of AMD Power gadget utility

this to start 

backup your efi first if you will try these advices😉

Applealc kext

not useful for usb or internal audio

only useful for hdmi/dp audio..

[fabiosun]

@jasin755 post a debug log could help

maybe having an Asus board you could try efi posted in @cleverhomethread (nulling to start his mmio and overall his huge device properties list 🙂 )

 

 

also post where your system hangs could help a bit 😛

 

[fabiosun]

Asus_EFI.ziptry this @jasin755if you want

and post your debug log

 

[jasin755]

Asus_EFI:

 

fabiosun's EFI:

 

Ploddles's EFI:

 

 

BTW. I am using Big Sur running on Proxmox. Do I have to change something in bios?

Thanks.

[fabiosun]

34 minutes ago, jasin755 said:

Asus_EFI:

 

fabiosun's EFI:

 

Ploddles's EFI:

 

 

BTW. I am using Big Sur running on Proxmox. Do I have to change something in bios?

Thanks.

are you using Proxmox to boot in bare metal?

or only the same OSX installation but starting with EFI posted above?

 

[fabiosun]

config.plist.zipconfig.plist 2.zip

could you try this two configs with Asus EFI posted above

?

 

[fabiosun]

acpi_config.zip

also this replace ACPI folder and config.plist if previous config are failing in the same place

 

[Arrakis]

23 hours ago, fabiosun said:

@Arrakis
if your system is stable you can avoid to use any of those boot alcid not useful for our trx40 internal audio

also for usb audio is not useful

would leave only -v to see verbose just in case

also some kext is not useful I think

mcedisabler? Without have you a kp?

I do not think so

also smcamdprocessor kext not useful if you use latest version of AMD Power gadget utility

this to start 

backup your efi first if you will try these advices😉

Applealc kext

not useful for usb or internal audio

only useful for hdmi/dp audio..

 

@fabiosun Hello Fabio

By following your advice,

I have kept:

boot-args: -v only (I understand why 😏)

Applealc.Kext because I use the sound in hdmi / DP audio.

I deleted :

AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext

SMCAMDProcessor.kext

 

I restarted without a problem.

Sound is functional on HDMI / DP audio and through the blackmagic ultraStudio 4k mini card.

Thank you so much.

Did you see anything else?

[jasin755]

No. I don't use Proxmox to boot Baremetal. I have Proxmox on separate HDD and now I am trying boot baremetal from usb stick efi.

 

Some potencial important information:

- I have 2 GPU. RTX2080s (for Windows) and Vega56 (for macOS. It is working on macOS using Proxmox). For booting I use RTX2080 as primary GPU (because I can't change which GPU is primary in bios. Physical switching is needed).

- I have set SATA in RAID mode (because I use 2x NVMe SSDs in RAID0 in Windows). RAID mode is allowed for NVMe disks too.

 

Sata/NVMe bios configuration:

 

Asus + config:

 

Asus + config2/acpi_config:

 

 

Edited November 26, 2020 by jasin755

[fabiosun]

@jasin755

try to put in config.plist (ones of the above ones) nv_disable=1 in boot args/Nvram

also you can try to put 4g on/off and CSM on/off (try all combinations)

Obviously you must have a monitor also connect to your Vega 56 GPU

 

[fabiosun]

11 hours ago, Arrakis said:

 

@fabiosun Hello Fabio

By following your advice,

I have kept:

boot-args: -v only (I understand why 😏)

Applealc.Kext because I use the sound in hdmi / DP audio.

I deleted :

AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext

SMCAMDProcessor.kext

 

I restarted without a problem.

Sound is functional on HDMI / DP audio and through the blackmagic ultraStudio 4k mini card.

Thank you so much.

Did you see anything else?

 

Hi

I would fill all MMIO list with yours proper calculated ones

here you can find a useful method to calculate them:

 

Then you can also try to put all to no the others quirk outlined in red, maybe for you only one is mandatory (DummyPowerManagement), it seems useful for gigabyte trx40 users to avoid some kp or hangs after login in OSX

For me not useful at all

As always I suggest to back your working config.plist if you want to try

 

[jasin755]

@fabiosun I tried nv_disable=1 and physical disconnect nvidia card and it doesn't help. Log is same "Asus + config"  mentioned above and on end of log I got black screen. I tried all combiantions of disable/enable 4G and disable/enable CSM.

Edited November 27, 2020 by jasin755

[Arrakis]

3 hours ago, fabiosun said:

 

Hi

I would fill all MMIO list with yours proper calculated ones

here you can find a useful method to calculate them:

 

Then you can also try to put all to no the others quirk outlined in red, maybe for you only one is mandatory (DummyPowerManagement), it seems useful for gigabyte trx40 users to avoid some kp or hangs after login in OSX

For me not useful at all

As always I suggest to back your working config.plist if you want to try

 

 

@fabiosunI had already edited my Mmio White List with my own values and deactivated the last 4 values following the iGPU method.

 

I've turned off :

Power TimeoutKernelPanic

ThirdPartyDrDrives

XhcPortLimit

 

I tried disabling PanicNoKextDump but the hack restarts after a few minutes of use.

[fabiosun]

38 minutes ago, Arrakis said:

 

 

I tried disabling PanicNoKextDump but the hack restarts after a few minutes of use.

are you sure?

maybe it happens with dummypowermanagemnt disabling?

 

1 hour ago, jasin755 said:

@fabiosun I tried nv_disable=1 and physical disconnect nvidia card and it doesn't help. Log is same "Asus + config"  mentioned above and on end of log I got black screen. I tried all combiantions of disable/enable 4G and disable/enable CSM.

@jasin755 black screen is different of previous thing you posted?

Vega is connected to a monitor?

if so during black screen could you try to change on it dp or Hdmi port?

also could you try enabling or disabling pikera boot arg and Whatevergreen kext?

 

 

[Arrakis]

2 hours ago, Arrakis said:

 

@fabiosunI had already edited my Mmio White List with my own values and deactivated the last 4 values following the iGPU method.

 

I've turned off :

Power TimeoutKernelPanic

ThirdPartyDrDrives

XhcPortLimit

 

I tried disabling PanicNoKextDump but the hack restarts after a few minutes of use.

The dummypowermanagement is still activated.

I wanted to turn it off last.

I took it step by step.

 

I deactivated the first batch:

Power TimeoutKernelPanic

ThirdPartyDrDrives

XhcPortLimit

 

Then the second batch:

PanicNoKextDump

 

It was after this last start that the problem arose.

[fabiosun]

uhm weird..you have to investigate better..meanwhile leave it how it is fully working for you 🙂

 

[iosengineer]

Technical question on MMIO whitelist:

 

If I'm willing to spend 4GB (or even more!) RAM to earn the capability to reconfigure my PCIe topology without boot failures, is there a way to configure the MMIO whitelist to instruct macOS to stay away from all memory addresses that are likely to be mapped as PCIe BARs?

 

I have an evolving set of needs from my system, and combined with the Gigabyte D4 error, mean that I need to move PCIe devices around fairly regularly. This seems to work fine on my Intel Hacks, and since I have plenty of RAM in the TRX40, it would be a huge win to just write off a larger chunk of memory to have this flexibility.

[meina222]

Apart from maybe having to edit a custom SSDT, moving PCI devices shouldn't cause an issue. What specific problem (aside from D4, which won't be solved by MMIO) do you have when you do so?

Edited November 28, 2020 by meina222

[Arrakis]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Big Sur but it gets stuck right off the bat.☹️

config.plist.zip

Edited November 28, 2020 by Arrakis

[fabiosun]

@Arrakis

try without rebuidmap quirk..

or if you want try to adapt to your system EFI I have posted in @cleverhome thread

with that you can install from scratch both Catalina and latest Big Sur