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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Existing MPX modules are: Radeon Pro 580X, Radeon Pro Vega II, Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, Radeon Pro W5500X, Radeon Pro W5700X, Radeon Pro W6600X, Radeon Pro W6800X, Radeon Pro W6800X Duo, Radeon Pro W6900X. There is no Radeon Pro W6700 in AMD's line-up, and no driver support for RX6700/W6700 in...
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    I'm fairly sure AMD would have mentioned if they had released a Radeon Pro W7900 yet. Apple uses the Pro version in their MPX modules, not the consumer/gamer RX. So, assuming that Apple intends to release a W7900 MPX module for the soon-to-be-discontinued Intel MacPro, the hardware part is not...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    To just play with the GUI, you may install to a virtual machine (Virtual Box, or other). This is also a great way to test resiliency by removing drives or "playing" with a hex editor on one of the virtual data disks and watch ZFS work its magic of correcting on the fly. Of course, do not commit...
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    Let's hope for you that it is not a scam after all and you'll get the hardware. But, for the sake of your data, do NOT run it as intended with two VMs under Proxmox. As described, the hardware is seriously underpowered. https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/scam-alert-storaxa.108318/ Good...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    My reading of the last point is that "exchangeable" ("tauschbar") refers to cards in PCIe slots, as opposed to devices which are soldered to the motherboard. I see no eGPU hint here. For the rest, the ease of use benefit is clear. Decyphering ACPI and PCI paths is a major hurdle for many.
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    What? You're not itching to get a tiny screaming fan on a M.2 module? Fell how it spins FAST…
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Being "RDNA2" does NOT mean that the iGPU is "like" a desktop dGPU. Remember: MacOS supports RX6800/6900 (Navi21) and RX 6600 (Navi23) but not RX 6700 (Navi22) and no-one has yet managed to force support for RX 6700 from a driver which supports higher and lower tiers! The pared-down iGPU is even...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Disappointing, but useful information.
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    Has someone tried to run Photoshop/Lightroom on a Zen 4 hackintosh without any software patches, AMDFriend or other?
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    If I'm not mistaken, the issue with ProTools and Ryzentoshes is the same as for Photoshop or Lightroom: Some AVX-512 accelerated functions do not correctly detect the processor abilities and fail or crash the software on Zen 3 and earlier. But Zen 4 has AVX-512. The question is then: How do we...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Historically, x.2 or x.3 updates is the time where Apple drops a "surprise" on us. Big Sur broke the USB port limit removal patches. Monterey enforced DriverKit and AppleVTD for networking. It looks like you've identified the "Ventura special": Apple may have dropped ATAPI support. If so, it...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Thanks! I had missed a few bits of the Maple Ridge story.
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    I think I had a reasonable command of the situation and my situation was spot on: Apple has never used Maple Ridge in a real Mac, and quite possibly never will. MacOS has no driver for Maple Ridge. All efforts to spoof it as Titan Ridge have failed, and the Maple Ridge firmware has not yet been...
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    Simple: Get a Gigabyte Titan Ridge card, preferably on a motherboard with a 5-pin header; hot plug with a SSDT, full Thunderbolt bus by flashing the card with a custom firmware. Do not buy into Maple Ridge if you need dependable Thunderbolt. Efforts to make Maple Ridge work have stalled, and I'm...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    RX 6700/6750 are NOT supported and will certainly never be, so this is an even worse choice than RX 7900.
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Then the best part of the plan would be the waiting… A W7800 upgrade would make sense even after the MacPro7,1 is discontinued and replaced by an AppleSilicon model. (No guarantee Apple will do it though.) But if Apple discontinues the Intel Mac Pro, an upgrade to the low end W6600 would make no...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    Then, why not wait for RX 7800 (XT) to be announced? Contrary to macOS support, which is uncertain, we can be fully confident that these parts will come—once AMD has extracted enough money from early RX 7900 adopters.
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    That's a hint I got from the documentation of… WhateverGreen: Beyond managing ALC codecs, AppleALC "corrects" the sound part of video outputs, and possibly fixes other sound-related things to make the system more Mac-like. Since AppleALC(U) is not necessary at all for USB-based codecs, I infer...
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    Actually it expects the cores NOT to be named C000 in scope _SB.PLTF, since it was it does is defining stubs which macOS understands. How teh stubs are named is irrelevant as long as it does not collide with the existing processor devices in ACPI devices. Whenever possible yes. But a SSDT which...
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    Ryzen 7000 Testing

    A RX6650XT (0x73ef) should be spoofed to a RX6600XT (0x73ff) to work with macOS. This spoof will itself require the card's location, and thus depend on where it is plugged. Does it work with Windows when plugged into the top slot? If so, use Device Properties to obtain the PCI and ACPI paths.
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