I have attached the stdout for the flashrom program running on the H8QME2,motherboard. I am using the H8QME2 (non + version). The "plus" version is really a "minus" version, in that it is the same motherboard, but missing the legacy PCI-X slots.
Thank you for your work on such a useful program. I am glad that I can give back at least a small bit to the open source software movement.
I have 4 of these motherboards that I got really cheap with dual core CPU. I use them for BOINC processing and found some hex core CPUs on eBay for $10 each, which is really wild since these CPUs were $2000 each not very long ago. Thanks to the flashrom program, it only took me 15 minutes to flash the BIOS on all 4 motherboards with the update needed for the new hex core CPUs.
In less than an hour, I had all 4 of my systems upgraded and running POEM@Home a medical research project at the University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and other BOINC projects. Co-operative projects like open source software and BOINC are helping to make the world a smaller place. Thanks to the flashrom program, I was able to quickly upgrade the systems that are now doing BOINC processing at 2000 GFLOPS (GPU) and more than 1 million MIPS (CPU).
Thank you, Greg Tippitt Knoxville, Tennessee USA ==========================
On 5/1/14, Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@alumi.tuwien.ac.at wrote:nce
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:36:51 -0400 Greg Tippitt gtippitt@gmail.com wrote:
On the hardware section of the wiki the SuperMicro H8QME2 was not mentioned, but several others from SM were supported.
I needed to upgrade the BIOS on my motherboard before I could upgrade from dual core to hex core Opteron CPUs. It worked dead simple.
Hello Greg,
thanks for your report! I have added your board to our list of supported hardware and will commit that later together with other small changes. I presumed that it is a H8QME-2 (http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron8000/MCP55/H8QME-2.cfm) and not a H8QME-2+ (http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron8000/MCP55/H8QME-2_.cfm). If possible please always send a (verbose) log with such reports so that we can verify it and also look for oddities that might be interesting for our future work.
I tried to do the -z option to send in, but it said that option wasn't compiled for.
The -z option is similar to -L. The latter produces human-readable output from the information stored in flashrom, while -z produces input for the wiki from the same information. We use it to generate the wiki input internally.
-- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner