coreboot-kgpe-d16/Documentation/mainboard/prodrive/hermes.md
Felix Singer d55fa332d8 Documentation: Move firmware flashing tutorial to tutorial section
There is no need that the tutorial for flashing firmware has its own
point in the main menu. Thus, move it to the tutorial section.

Change-Id: Ife6d97254af4c006fe01480a78c76303f9cb34bb
Signed-off-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/62424
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Heijligen <src@posteo.de>
2022-03-11 19:56:22 +00:00

1.7 KiB

Hermes

Hermes is a regular ATX board designed for workstation PCs.

The board features:

  • 5 PCIe 16x Gen3 slots
  • 4 ECC capable DDR4 DIMMs
  • 5 dedicated Ethernet ports
  • 1 BMC Ethernet port
  • VGA
  • COM port
  • 2 COM port headers
  • 4 SATA ports,
  • NVMe M2 slot
  • CNVi M2 slot
  • 3 optional DisplayPort outputs
  • optional TPM2

Required proprietary blobs

Flashing coreboot

  • The BIOS flash can be updated over the BMC, but the update file has a proprietary format
  • For development a dediprog compatible pinheader is present which allows to use an EM100

Known issues

  • MRC caching does not work on cold boot with Intel SPS (see Intel FSP2.0)

Technology

+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| CPU              | CoffeeLake + CoffeeLake R (Core + Xeon)          |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| PCH              | Intel C246                                       |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Coprocessor      | Intel SPS (server version of the ME)             |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Super I/O        | none                                             |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| BMC              | Aspeed AST2500                                   |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+