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