I did the testing yesterday on my HP Elite 8300 SFF on latest macOS Big Sur and everything is working except DRM.
VDA Decoded = Failed.
So aside from this part everything else is working like charm for me.
- Secure Boot
- FileVault
- Sleep & Wake
- Power Management
- USB Ports
- Audio
- Video Ports
We may need more time to investigate DRM portion if we can find any possibility to fix that because of the dropped support of the (supported) SMBIOS(s) and look for a way to re-enable that if possible.
At the same time i will open a discussion with Acidanthera and other devs regarding this problem and see what we can do for Ivy Bridge PC users (including the ones with Dedicated GPU) as
@LisaAlterEgo described the problem.
At the same time, i found a complete HP 6300 Pro MT (without CPU,RAM,HDD) for 50 Euro.
Im going to grab that one and put my RAM, CPU and SSD on it and have a standard PCI height Tower.
I will put my MSI GeForce GTX 1650 LP 4GT on sale and then look for a RX560 or RX570 depending on the price of selling mine/buying the AMD.
After that i will be able to better support Dedicated GPU users and have better use of it since i use 3 operating systems (macOS, Linux, Windows).
So right now i am thinking what should i do with the SMBIOS choices.
If someone is on Catalina, did any of you try MacPro6,1 definition on Catalina, does VDA Decoder pass and does DRM work ? (as it did with iMacPro1,1 ; macmini6,1-2 and iMac13,1-13,3)
Need to know if i need to add 3-4 config.plist models to accommodate IGPU/DGPU and <Catalina/Big Sur> users.