Z490 & Z590 - Will Z590 ever have macOS Support ?

[CaseySJ]

Hi @CaseySJ


I tried @ori69 EFI and had some problems with the USB and my TB equipment didnt show up.
Weird since ori has it working on his system.

I managed to make my own USB Patch,and now thunderbolt shows as expected.(No Hotplug yet,I tried the Mapple Ridge patch from you)
Here some files i extracted IOReg/Macaisl and Hackintool PCI
I also attached my EFI. just to check if al is good. and proceed from here.

I use a RX 580,i didnt do anything for igpu patching.

Thanks.

I wonder if it’s best to return the Gigabyte Z590i Vision D and consider instead the MSI Meg Z590i UNIFY. Just a thought.

Nevertheless I’ll take a look at your EFI in the morning.

 

[vipermachine]

I wonder if it’s best to return the Gigabyte Z590i Vision D and consider instead the MSI Meg Z590i UNIFY. Just a thought.

Nevertheless I’ll take a look at your EFI in the morning.

Nah, I think I will stick to Gigabyte ..the MSI 490i Unify gave us headache remember
Lets hope Gigabyte comes with a BIOS update soon

My EFI is really basic
I only did the USB part.

It seems the one from @ori69 actually Works now.
The only thing I did is replaced it with my USB.kext.
Thunderbolt shows up now. No Hotplug.

Thank you for looking at my EFI.

 

[vipermachine]

Did you install linux kernel 5.11 or later?
https://linuxhint.com/update_ubuntu_kernel_20_04/

Maple Ridge support is added here:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/db0746e3399ee87ee5f957880811da16faa89fb8
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5a8e3229ac27956bdcc25b2709e5d196d109a27a
It says it was added to 5.11-rc1 so 5.11 is the minimum released version.

The commit note says it's a USB4 controller with a firmware connection manager like previous Intel Thunderbolt controllers.

Hi @joevt

I installed a fresh UNBUNTU 2 days ago.
Should be the latest kernel right?

 

[joevt]

Hi @joevt

I installed a fresh UNBUNTU 2 days ago.
Should be the latest kernel right?

Probably not. Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 come with 5.4 or 5.8. The instructions has commands to check the current kernel version.

uname -r
cat /proc/version

It takes just a few minutes to do the update.

mkdir ~/kernel5.11
cd ~/kernel5.11

wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.11/amd64/linux-headers-5.11.0-051100_5.11.0-051100.202102142330_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.11/amd64/linux-image-unsigned-5.11.0-051100-generic_5.11.0-051100.202102142330_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.11/amd64/linux-modules-5.11.0-051100-generic_5.11.0-051100.202102142330_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg –i *.deb

After that completes, restart and check the kernel version again. It should be 5.11.

 

[vipermachine]

Probably not. Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 come with 5.4 or 5.8. The instructions has commands to check the current kernel version.

uname -r
cat /proc/version

It takes just a few minutes to do the update.

mkdir ~/kernel5.11
cd ~/kernel5.11

wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.11/amd64/linux-headers-5.11.0-051100_5.11.0-051100.202102142330_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.11/amd64/linux-image-unsigned-5.11.0-051100-generic_5.11.0-051100.202102142330_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.11/amd64/linux-modules-5.11.0-051100-generic_5.11.0-051100.202102142330_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg –i *.deb

After that completes, restart and check the kernel version again. It should be 5.11.

Hey @joevt

Thanks for posting.
I did the kernel update
Check what came out of it. no Thunderbolt

 

[vipermachine]

Hi @ori69

Here are my BIOS Settings
Also some macOS screenshots

System works fine now with your EFI & my own USB.kext

 

[ori69]

Thank you.
So you have the same as mine that no Thunderbolt driver is installed. And yet the device works.

 

[joevt]

Hey @joevt
Thanks for posting.
I did the kernel update
Check what came out of it. no Thunderbolt

You only executed one wget command. There's three of them.
Did you reboot and check the kernel version again?

 

[vipermachine]

You only executed one wget command. There's three of them.
Did you reboot and check the kernel version again?

You are right.
I should done better..still learning

Attached the extracted TB information
@CaseySJ

 

[ori69]

Today I desoldered and copied the rom (winbond 25Q80) from the Thunderbolt 4 controller from the Z590i Vision D.
I also wrote to Gigabyte about a hot-plug.