Newbie needs help flashing a Supermicro H8SCM-F

[Stéphane Delaunay]

Hello everyone,

I have a complete Supermicro server system with a H8SCM-F motherboard inside that I'd like to install Coreboot on.

According to the old wiki, it appears to have been pretty well supported (https://www.coreboot.org/Board:supermicro/h8scm).

I looked through the mailing list and found a few threads regarding issues with the board, but those were mostly older or related to the BMC (IPMI) on this reversion, which I do not intend to use at all.

However, while building the payload, I noticed that I couldn't select this model, since there are only Supermicro Intel boards available.

How would I go about flashing my board with the latest Coreboot (if that makes sense)?

Thank you in advance for any hints!

Regards,
Steph

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 01:27:58PM +0000, Stéphane Delaunay via coreboot wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a complete Supermicro server system with a H8SCM-F motherboard inside that I'd like to install Coreboot on.
>
> According to the old wiki, it appears to have been pretty well supported (https://www.coreboot.org/Board:supermicro/h8scm).
>
> I looked through the mailing list and found a few threads regarding issues with the board, but those were mostly older or related to the BMC (IPMI) on this reversion, which I do not intend to use at all.
>
> However, while building the payload, I noticed that I couldn't select this model, since there are only Supermicro Intel boards available.
>
> How would I go about flashing my board with the latest Coreboot (if that makes sense)?

Unfortunately, H8SCM support was removed in coreboot release 4.8[1], as
part of the removal of AMD Family 10 support[2].

The list of currently supported boards is at https://www.coreboot.org/status/board-status.html

Jonathan Neuschäfer

[1]: https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/coreboot-4.8.1-relnotes.html?highlight=h8s...
[2]: https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/commit/?id=f2e42c4a8ec75c16225...

[Stéphane Delaunay]

Hi Jonathan,

on Sunday, February 23, 2020 3:08 PM, Jonathan Neuschäfer ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Unfortunately, H8SCM support was removed in coreboot release 4.8[1](https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/coreboot-4.8.1-relnotes.html?highlight=h8s...), as
> part of the removal of AMD Family 10 support[2](https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/commit/?id=f2e42c4a8ec75c16225...).

Oh, I understand, thank you. That explains why I wasn't able to find it on the list, but through online search on that specific board.

Would it be feasible at all to use it with 4.7? I could try making it work, otherwise I'd probably just get rid of it anyway.

Does somebody have experiences with this board before it was removed by any chance?

Thanks,
Steph