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¶
- Intel FSP2.0
- Intel SPS
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 |