I am making a beginners guide for the wiki, and I would like to include the low cost H8SCM board on it. (widely available used for around $30 vs $220 for a used KCMA-D8)
If anyone has this one I have a few questions:
Assume a 42xx series Opteron processor is in use. (41xx is crap and 43xx needs microcode for secure operation and IOMMU)
* Does it work with a native equivalent or near native featureset?
* Does it use the older open source version of AGESA? (I am not so sure how to easily tell them apart as tim pearson said it wasn't audited for binaries)
* Does it need any blobs to work? (besides VGA, as nobody will will want to use the terrible onboard chipset as this isn't a server board)
* Does IOMMU work?, in platform_cfg.h IOMMU_SUPPORT_DISABLE is there with a "TODO" - but what would it take to enable this? I know that AGESA has stubs for it but other than that I can't find any documentation - I imagine this is all secret squirrel AMD confidential stuff and if it was easy someone would have done it already.
* Does the -F version (with the BMC) work identical to the regular version if you remove the BMC ROM? (maybe a security risk due to the direct data link from the BMC to one of the onboard intel nics according to the block diagram)
- Thanks!