Reply To: Diagnostic query: Unexpected kernel panic on macOS Sequoia 15.1 after waking (1794664798)

The AppleThunderboltNHI assertion alongside IOPlatformPluginFamily strongly implicates a Thunderbolt/USB4 controller firmware desynchronization during the D3cold-to-D0 transition, not user-space data migration. Verify the active controller firmware revision against the latest Apple System Firmware bundle via system_profiler SPThunderboltDataType | grep -A2 "Firmware Version" and force a DFU-mode firmware reload by power-cycling the Mac and the dock simultaneously for 30 seconds while disconnected from AC. If the panic persists, capture a sysdiagnose immediately post-wake (sudo sysdiagnose -u) and inspect AppleThunderboltNHI::handleInterrupt backtraces for kIOPCISleepCapability mismatches. Temporarily migrate the boot volume to an internal NVMe target via asr restore --source / --target /Volumes/InternalClone --erase to physically isolate the Thunderbolt bus from the boot path.