Well. woke up to find out that a version of this post I posted in the "General" BMW discussion area had become a front page "featured" article here. Needless to say, my inbox is flooded and am struggling to keep up. But, I got a very interesting chip-maker note.
BR Performance contacted me. Company states they are the first to have cracked BMW ECU's (Bosch computers), and that enabled "AMS Performance to tune the MCLAREN & the new M3/M4/M5/M6". That is a big claim and worth noting. They provided this link, a thread that was also featured:
http://f10.m5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1066353