X99 Motherboards with Socket 2011-3 Now Available

[Manic Harmon1c]

WiFi actually might work in osx... Obviously we don't know what chipset it is, but there's an Asus card that uses the bcm4360 chipset so it could be very similar to this. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00F42V83C/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00F42V83C&linkCode=as2&redirect=true&tag=skos-20

Otherwise hopefully we will be able to replace the card with something that works without wasting a pcie slot.

And yeah, I could care less about most of those extra features you mentioned. I use a fan controller so that doesn't matter to me, I'll probably be using a 3rd party Ethernet card, and the number of usb ports doesn't matter since i use powered hubs anyway. M.2 sounds cool though. For the most part the only thing I care about is that the higher end boards might have more options for stable overclocking.

I intend to go with an Asus board because of the OC socket and the fact that they are the only manufacturer that currently has a thunderbolt card.

 

[tonymacx86]

The card in the ASUS X99 Deluxe, at least in the model I've seen, is confirmed to be BCM94352 HMB/AzureWave AW-CE123H which supports both Airport and Bluetooth 4.0 with kext, DSDT or SSDT injection.



http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/104850-guide-airport-pcie-half-mini-v2.html

 

[toncij]

How good is MSI usually with this? I see they have a workable audio chipset... Clover UEFI maybe?

 

[tonymacx86]

We will be testing a few different boards, and I'll post something when we have anything to report regarding compatibility.

 

[samtimbaud]

In my case thunderbolt 2 connection would be my best wish.

 

[toncij]

We will be testing a few different boards, and I'll post something when we have anything to report regarding compatibility.

I'm interested in previous experience since I'll be trying 2-3 boards with this.

 

[Octavean]

The card in the ASUS X99 Deluxe, at least in the model I've seen, is confirmed to be BCM94352 HMB/AzureWave AW-CE123H which supports both Airport and Bluetooth 4.0 with kext, DSDT or SSDT injection.



http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/104850-guide-airport-pcie-half-mini-v2.html

Good to know, thank you.

BTW, I was looking around on Amazon and came across this:

Sbuy Thunderbolt-2 Pcie 1-Port I/O Card

High-speed, dual-protocol I/O that delivers breakthrough performance with 20 Gbps bi-directional, dual-channel transfer speeds
Low latency and enhanced time synchronization supports extremely accurate audio and video creation, playback, and editing
Support data and video with PCIe and DisplayPort on a single card with a single cable connection
Enjoy maximum productivity by daisy-chaining up to six devices
Use with a range of devices that support the Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 standards without requiring a cable adapter

http://www.amazon.com/Sbuy-Thunderbolt-2-Pcie-1-Port-Card/dp/B00J1EQDV6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410478412&sr=8-1&keywords=Sbuy+thunderbolt

It looks like a quasi generic ASUS ThunderboltEX II card but only it's about twice the price.

 

[Manic Harmon1c]

Apparently the cpuid.h header has support for haswell-e, but cpuid.c does not. So once somebody fixes that you guys should have a bootable system.

 

[samtimbaud]

Apparently the cpuid.h header has support for haswell-e, but cpuid.c does not. So once somebody fixes that you guys should have a bootable system.

Yeah!! thanks

 

[Manic Harmon1c]

If anyone wants to give building the kernel a shot, there are a couple of tutorials you can follow:
http://shantonu.blogspot.de/
http://www.mitp0sh.de/?p=172

You might have better luck than me getting it to build. Try building it without any modifications first.

If you look in osfmk/i386/cpuid.h, on line 182 you can see this:

#define CPUID_MODEL_HASWELL_SVR		0x3F

So this is correct for the Haswell-E CPU, this file doesn't need to be changed.


As far as I can tell, I think this is the change that needs to be made:
in the file osfmk/i386/cpuid.c, there is no HASWELL_SVR, only HASWELL and HASWELL_ULT.
So on line 760, you can see this:

case CPUID_MODEL_HASWELL_ULT:

add another line and put this under it:

case CPUID_MODEL_HASWELL_SVR:

I think that should do the trick, it's too bad I have no way of getting it to build.

I have attached the files so you can see what I'm talking about.

Edit: I forgot to mention, those tutorials are for an older version of mavericks, so make sure you get the 10.9.4 versions of everything.