Sun Ultra 40 M2 & coreboot – Brief Summary (14.07.2018)


1.) Coreboot site: References to Sun Ultra 40 M2:


1.1.) Retired Coreboot Wiki site (viewed in July 2018);

Link: https://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot


When site/page accessed through a link (Google search result), titled “Board:sunw/ultra40m2 - coreboot«, search string: ‘coreboot+status+ultra+40+m2’:

Link: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:sunw/ultra40m2 (Last edited in July 2015);


1.1.1.) Sub-menu “Supported boards” -> Page “Mainboards supported by coreboot«:

Sun Ultra 40 M2 board is not listed anymore, just the Tyan’s retail server counterpart (Thunder n3600R S2912 ; coreboot status: Unknown);

Link: https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html


1.1.2.) Sub-menu “Support”, then “Board status pages” -> Page “Board:sunw/ultra40m2”;

Link: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:sunw/ultra40m2


1.2.) Page »Mainboards supported by coreboot« (viewed in July 2018):

Link: coreboot.org/status/board-status.html ;

	• Page accesed directly from the new coreboot.org site;
	• There's no reference to Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board;


1.3.) Coreboot release notes (viewed in July 2018):

	• Page accessed from the new coreboot site;

"Announcing coreboot 4.3"
"Added 14 mainboards:"

...
...

"sunw/ultra40m2: Native init Dual AMD K8 Processors & Nvidia MCP55 SB"

NOTE: None of the release notes, for the subsequent stable releases, mention removal of Sun Ultra 40 M2 board, from the list of coreboot supported boards.



2.) GitHub;

2.1.) rockchip-linux/coreboot:
 
	• Page: "coreboot/src/mainboard/sunw/ultra40m2/" (Master)
	• Latest commit: 82d9a31 on Jan 21 2016
	• Link: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/coreboot/tree/master/src/mainboard/sunw/ultra40m2


2.2.) coreboot/coreboot (Viewed in July 2018);

	• Page "coreboot/src/mainboard/" (Branch: 4.8_branch): 

	The 'sunw' folder still exists, with commits related to Ultra 40 and Ultra 40 M2 boards (2 months old).


	• Page: coreboot/src/mainboard/ (Branch: Master): 

	The 'sunw' folder no longer exists.



3.) Flashrom support:

	• Link: https://www.flashrom.org/Template:Flashrom_supported_chips_and_devices#Supported_mainboards
	• Page: “Template:Flashrom supported chips and devices”;
	• Last updated: June 2018;

Sub-menu "Supported mainboards" ... "Sun Ultra 40 M2", Status: OK;