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How to build your own iMac Pro [Successful Build/Extended Guide]

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Loloflatsix said:
If i disable CSM all works fine too. ;)
See my post bellow for hot plug .
I understand the challenge is for the Alpine ridge with ASUS mainboards.:beachball:
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Would you be able to test my SSDT with the Alpine Ridge and your GB mobo? You just would have to adopt the ACPI paths in the SSDT I guess..
 
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kgp said:
Would you be able to test my SSDT with the Alpine Ridge and your GB mobo? You just would have to adopt the ACPI paths in the SSDT I guess..
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Of course , this afternoon i'll test the SSDT with the ACPI paths ;)
 
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TheOfficialGypsy said:
I’m going to the Apple store in a few hours so will upload the latest Darwin dumper dumps soon.

EDIT: ended up buying the iMac Pro
Going to do all the dumps and testing in peace and then return the computer when done

Let me know what tests need to be done / dumps
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What we need is to make work the iMac Pro TB Bus drivers ;)

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Basically, I guess this would require to load some specific kexts. If you can investigate this on the real iMacPro and make some progress would be awesome .
 
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Anybody willing to experiment on this?

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If you open your bios with AmiBCP.exe in windows you can unhide the hidden thunderbolt options. On my Asrock board one of these is Native OS Hot Plug which is disabled by default. Enable it and the rest as they say is history. You must use the newest version of AmiBCP for Aptio V (Google is your friend) and change the Access/Use value for the option you want to unhide from Default to USER then 'save as' the modified bios. I usually run the modded bios through Intel's Flash Image Tool (FIT) to make sure it's kosher and unlock the descriptor and ME regions so the bios can easily be flashed using FPT. For more info on all this I recommend you visit Fernando's Win-RAID forum, a mine of useful information...
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Warning, dense matter! ... not as trivial as it looks like above.. ;)

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Alright here is a complete dump as I have root access now :)
Here is a dump from 10.13.3 17D2047.
I will now update to 10.13.4 and perform the dump then.
And then after I will update to 10.13.5 beta 5 and perform another dump.

In the meantime think whatever you guys would like me to do / test :D
 

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Still Not Loaded AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext/
AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter.kext

No kext Loaded

Thunderbolt: No drivers are loaded.

I thing make fake kext for AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext/
AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter.kext

#UID

#MAX port number

#Port number
 

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nmano said:
Still Not Loaded AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext

No kext Loaded

Thunderbolt: No drivers are loaded.

I thing make fake kext for AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext

#UID

#MAX port number

#Port number
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Yup!!!! That's the idea :headbang:

Do you know how to do it? I guess first we need to find and investigate the respective vanilla kext on the iMac Pro.

Maybe @RehabMan or @Brumbaer would be interested in joining this thrilling endeavour? That would be awesome....

I guess, once the respective kext is loaded we can also fully implement SSDT-9.aml of the former iMac Pro dump by @TheOfficialGypsy ...
 
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TheOfficialGypsy said:
Alright here is a complete dump as I have root access now :)
Here is a dump from 10.13.3 17D2047.
I will now update to 10.13.4 and perform the dump then.
And then after I will update to 10.13.5 beta 5 and perform another dump.

In the meantime think whatever you guys would like me to do / test :D
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See post #7977 ;)
 
I'm pretty sure this is purely cosmetic but now I figured out how to get the Xeon W CPU description in about this Mac.
Simply enter "0x0F01" in the "Type" box of "Cpu" section of Clover Configurator.
 

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