@qthegaijin,
Very interesting post!!
- Which tool did you use to flash the GC-Titan Ridge?
- If you used a CH341A programmer, did you connect Pin 28 to 3V3 (Pin 2) of the AMS1117?
- MacPro 5,1:
- DSM2.Hackintosh is working on a modification to the Thunderbolt SSDT.
- Gigabyte Z170X Designare:
- The screenshot of 10.12.2 at RP05 does not actually show full Thunderbolt Bus. It does show that Thunderbolt is working in ICM mode (Intel Connection Manager).
- I assume that the on-board Alpine Ridge firmware has not been patched? Is that correct?
- If the Antelope Audio device works fully under Alpine Ridge with 10.12.2, then I'm curious why it fails with the same Alpine Ridge under 10.12.6?
- I didn't realize that this motherboard has an on-board Alpine Ridge controller and a Thunderbolt header (THB_C) for an add-in-card! How nice...
- With the modified firmware on the GC-Titan Ridge, your screenshot clearly shows Thunderbolt Bus, so it's good to see that it works when (a) connected via THB_C and also when (b) pins 3 and 5 are jumpered.
- Do other TB3 devices work fully?
- If you have a Thunderbolt 3 dock (most of them have Alpine Ridge chips inside), have you tried connecting the dock to GC-Titan Ridge and then connecting the Antelope device to the dock?
- Used this flasher:
Organizer Flasher
- already output 3.3V. It had no issues reading and flashing the cards.
Mac Pro 5,1:
Yup, waiting patiently for the new SSDT
Z170X Designare:
- This has not been patched at all, this is what happens from a clean install with bios settings at No security. Every time I try to patch it now that I know what to do, the titan ridge patch disappears. Another thing to note which I forgot to post is on that install I am running a much older version of clover, I think in the mid 45's.
- I think Apple changed something in the Thunderbolt drivers, as per my screenshot showing the different sizes of them in my first post. That the only thing I can think, since up until 12.5 I had no issues with TB3 and antelope.
- Yup! It is one of the reasons I purchased the board, I wanted to have as many TB3 ports as possible for audio/video stuff.
- Other devices work fully, Thunderbolt Docks are recognized and show up in the tree as well as options in System Prefs.
- The antelope device DOES NOT work when connected through the dock, the same tree appears in IOreg. We tested with an Orion Studio rev 2017 and a Discrete 8 interface.
I posted a bit more info over on the Macrumors thread along with my Ioreg and PCI readouts. I will PM them to you so you can see what happens when the antelope is attached to the Titan Ridge card.
My 3rd Z170X-Designare board arrived today and I plan on doing one clover and one open core install on it. REALLY hoping it works since it was a $90, board only, eBay buy.
Edit: I guess i don't have enough posts yet to PM.