Documentation/mainboard/prodrive/hermes.md

   1 # Hermes
   2
   3 Hermes is a regular ATX board designed for workstation PCs.
   4
   5 The board features:
   6 * 5 PCIe 16x Gen3 slots
   7 * 4 ECC capable DDR4 DIMMs
   8 * 5 dedicated Ethernet ports
   9 * 1 BMC Ethernet port
  10 * VGA
  11 * COM port
  12 * 2 COM port headers
  13 * 4 SATA ports,
  14 * NVMe M2 slot
  15 * CNVi M2 slot
  16 * 3 optional DisplayPort outputs
  17 * optional TPM2
  18
  19 ## Required proprietary blobs
  20
  21 - [Intel FSP2.0]
  22 - Intel SPS
  23
  24 ## Flashing coreboot
  25
  26 * The BIOS flash can be updated over the BMC, but the update file has a proprietary format
  27 * For development a dediprog compatible pinheader is present which allows to use an EM100
  28
  29 ## Known issues
  30
  31 - MRC caching does not work on cold boot with Intel SPS (see [Intel FSP2.0])
  32
  33 ## Technology
  34
  35 ```{eval-rst}
  36 +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
  37 | CPU              | CoffeeLake + CoffeeLake R (Core + Xeon)          |
  38 +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
  39 | PCH              | Intel C246                                       |
  40 +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
  41 | Coprocessor      | Intel SPS (server version of the ME)             |
  42 +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
  43 | Super I/O        | none                                             |
  44 +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
  45 | BMC              | Aspeed AST2500                                   |
  46 +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
  47 ```
  48
  49 ## Extra links
  50
  51 [flashrom]: https://flashrom.org/Flashrom
  52 [flashing tutorial]: ../../tutorial/flashing_firmware/ext_power.md
  53 [Intel FSP2.0]: ../../soc/intel/fsp/index.md
  54 [AST2500]: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440