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MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro5,1: BootROM thread | 144.0.0.0.0
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First, don't put Apple copyrighted files here, please. Second, why risk bricking your Mac Pro, Apple will release 10.14.1 in two or three weeks time.
I wonder if theirs an apple dev lurking through these forums and slowly feeding us what we want
I would be surprised if there isn'tI wonder if theirs an apple dev lurking through these forums and slowly feeding us what we want
I wonder if theirs an apple dev lurking through these forums and slowly feeding us what we want
Pike R. Alpha maybe? AFAIK he works at Apple now...
Actual Apple dev I don't know, but for sure ex-Apple devs are here.I wonder if theirs an apple dev lurking through these forums and slowly feeding us what we want
P.S.: It's not me.
I wonder if theirs an apple dev lurking through these forums and slowly feeding us what we want
Well then we should compile a list to make it a little easier for her/him:
1. GOP Bootscreens, which then allows FileVault, Bootcamp, Verbose & Single User Modes, and Firmware passwords--useless as they may be
2. USB 3.0/3.1 booting
3. PCIe fan bug
4. HDMI Audio on recommended cards
Of those, #4 is the most minor but also the easiest to fix (doesn't even require any changes to firmware, just a kext). #1 would be the most resource intensive thing to fix, but would remove the biggest longstanding frustration that exists in being a cMP user.
Well...he was a humble great guy...not only in respected in hackintosh community...but basically covered any advanced Macs related topics.
has anyone submitted a bug report on that?
because the 2010-2012 Mac Pro do officially support DisplayPort audio out on the stock 5770/5870 cards
so if apple is recommend RX 580s and the audio out does not work on them, someone should submit a bug report on it.
I have an RX 580 and I definitely did submit that bug (along with screenshots of System Profiler > PCI showing the audio device with no driver installed) during the Mojave beta period (via Feedback Assistant). Never got a reply or any update to the status. I'm thinking the better way to report bugs is online via bugreport.apple.com
Yeah I submit my bug reports via bugreport.apple.com
that reminds me the Radeon HD 7950 is on the officially recommended list and the DP/HDMI Audio on that has never worked on that card in OS X
and I use such a card, guess I should submit a bug report it then
[doublepost=1539190015][/doublepost](I have submitted a bug report for no HDMI/DisplayPort audio on the Radeon HD 7950 in MP5,1s
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Building off those comments, it would appear Apple sees adding full GOP boot drivers to the EFI as either too much work or not something the hardware is capable of.
Backtracking a bit, why exactly did Apple build their EFI with UGA as the driver rather than using GOP in the first place. Given that the graphics industry has gone the GOP route, would that have not been more prudent? Given that tsialex has indicated there is plenty of space in the EFI, is there a reason why Apple would not have just added GOP later on?
I'm sure there are folks more knowledgable who can add more/correct what I get wrong, but GOP was introduced with the advent of UEFI in the mid-2000s. Before that, the standard was EFI (which used UGA) and Apple used that in all of their Intel devices. Most of the R&D on the cMP occurred in that time frame. From what I read, beginning with Late 2008 Macs, some of them moved to UEFI and some didn't (the Mac Pro among the latter group). Why they didn't make the change for the 4,1 I have no idea. Maybe it just missed the cut-off or maybe there was some other reason.
What I'm not sure of is whether Apple has any history of converting any model from EFI to UEFI after release. My hunch is that they don't. It may be that they consider it to be too radical a change to make with systems currently out in the wild (i.e. it could break things and/or cause major problems for existing customers who are running stock configurations, etc.).
Oops my mistake - thanks for pointing that out - I meant Mojave converts all boot drives regardless of type (SSD, HDD, Fusion)
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Given that APFS has been on the Mac for over a year now and Apple still hasn't added support to Boot Camp drivers, I don't know if I would count on it lol
APFS booting was added to the cMP's firmware over a year ago with High Sierra. Or were you referring to something else?
Well that didn't take long:
https://macbank.co.uk/product/apple...6-core-32gb-rx560-250gb-nvme-ssd-usb3-mojave/
This is the company I bought my own refurb 5,1 from last year. They're already selling bootable NVMe-equipped MP5,1s with High Sierra or Mojave (it's not clear)... before the firmware is even officially released as part of 10.14.1.
/csd
https://macbank.co.uk/product/apple...6-core-32gb-rx560-250gb-nvme-ssd-usb3-mojave/
This is the company I bought my own refurb 5,1 from last year. They're already selling bootable NVMe-equipped MP5,1s with High Sierra or Mojave (it's not clear)... before the firmware is even officially released as part of 10.14.1.
/csd
I forgot...I'm old.
...and I just added APFS to my 2008 Mac Pro's BootROM.
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In their description:
This Mac Pro is fitted with a brand new 250GB (NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive) with the Apple Mac OS High Sierra System installed. (They never say High Sierra is actually installed on the NVMe. If I read this sentense correctly, it means "This Mac Pro fitted with a NVME SSD", and "this Mac Pro with HS installed". But not necessary "the NVMe with HS installed)
Until now the faster more responsive NVMe Solid State Drives have not been bootable on the Mac Pro workstations, it offers six time the performance over a 2.5″ SSD installed in the regular SATA bays. (And they also said NVMe is NOT bootable on that Mac Pro. May be there is another SATA SSD in one of the HDD bay for the OS)
Craig F himself gave a pretty clear answer when it comes to FileVault (a no unfortunately) in the email attached in this post: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ve-nvme-support.2132317/page-68#post-26641653
What are people's thoughts on the general speed increase of using an NVMe drive over a M.2 AHCI drive? Would there be an appreciable speed increase as a boot drive from using a SM951 for example?