Dear Stéphane,


Am 06.06.20 um 14:45 schrieb Stéphane Delaunay via coreboot:

> On Monday, May 25, 2020 1:45 PM, Christian Walter <christian.walter@9elements.com> wrote:
>
>> currently following x11 Supermicro boards are supported:
>>
>> * x11ssh-tf
>>
>> * x11ssm-f
>>
>> [..]
>>
>> Let me know if you need to know more.
>
> Sorry for replying so late. Yes, I'd like to take you up on that offer.

I do not have the board, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

> I'm mainly interested in the F-model as a workstation board.

I believe, the -F means, that it has a BMC (Baseboard Management
Controller). If it’s a workstation board, I suggest, to get a model
without the BMC, as it’s basically an additional system, that often gets
more in the way than help. Especially with coreboot, where you have so
many options to put an entire minimal (GNU/Linux) OS into the flash ROM
chip, helping you to debug if something breaks.

In my experience, the BMC’s only useful feature is to reset the board in
case it hangs, which is useful mainly in data centers and not so much
for workstations.

> Since I couldn't find detailed info on it online: Just how well does
> it work with Coreboot? Are all the ports working, fan control, etc.?

(coreboot is officially spelled all lowercase.)

Michael recently uploaded the logs to the board status repository [1].
Yesterday, 9elements Cyber Security published a blog post regarding the
board [2].

> Also how does it take a disabled ME, if you have any experiences
> with that?

Sorry, I can’t say. I learned it’s called SPS on server boards.

With people from 9elements Cyber Security and Michael working on the
board family, I suggest to get the board from the family you want, and
should something not work, you will likely get suggestions on how to fix it.


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]:
https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/tree/supermicro/x11-lga1151-series/x11ssm-f/4.12-392-g11217de375-dirty/2020-05-30T17_44_12Z
[2]: https://9esec.io/blog/next-generation-coreboot-server-platform/
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