Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max
by monocasa on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:34PM
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Oh, word. Thanks for the correction. I guess I extrapolated too much from the combo of you knowing enough of the clock inputs to the peripherals to make them work and a statement of yours about finding a pll bypass signal. I want to say your main point your statements on the pll bypass was that the cores must be mainly static logic because they ran stable at whatever rate the crystal is, but I'm half remembering and could conflating that with something else.
Basically, all of this is configured at boot and much of it locked off. Apple have done a good job making it difficult to nuke these things from the OS level, for better or for worse :). I once overwrote all the GPIO registers and didn't even break anything (though the Type C controllers did crash, but a hard shutdown and boot fixed it - this was on an M1 Pro MacBook). It's in one of my streams somewhere...