just checking in over here - caseysj has been helping with patching the TB Titan Ridge firmware on the asus x299 prime deluxe II to enable local node, but somehow i have more fundamental problems it seems.
despite having my bios set up (almost, see below) as shown by
@dez in post #98, the TB3 ports are powered down unless a USB-C hub/dock is plugged into one of the ports when i cold boot. if i cold boot with my USB-C hub and elgato TB3 mini dock connected, the mini-dock works. and even using Dez's latest SSDT, hot-removal of the TB3 dock kills both ports - hot plugging the USB-C hub results in it only showing up on the USB2 controller. hot-plugging the elgato TB3 dock again does not work; it is not recognized again. all of this seems contrary to some of the successes in this thread.
i am running bios 3006 which has been patched for CFG Lock to work properly. the thunderbolt config screens are a little different. do you guys thing that downgrading the BIOS would resolve any of these issues? or was the failure to boot under 3006 an unrelated problem (because i can boot fine using opencore on 3006.)