Supermicro X9SCM-F - not supported yet?

[Alexander List]

Hi,

according to your website my board (Supermicro X9SCM-F) is not supported
yet.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c202_c204/x9scm-f.cfm

I wonder what's faster - me figuring out how to get a PXE boot
environment up and running here at home so I can boot a FreeDOS HDD
image via the net, or me helping you support this type of board ;)

output of flashrom -V attached, as well as dmidecode.

cheers

Alex
PS: You can find me on freenode as #alexlist - around the ubuntu
channels ... just ping me if I can help you support this board.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:42:37 +0800
Alexander List  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to your website my board (Supermicro X9SCM-F) is not supported
> yet.
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c202_c204/x9scm-f.cfm
>
> I wonder what's faster - me figuring out how to get a PXE boot
> environment up and running here at home so I can boot a FreeDOS HDD
> image via the net, or me helping you support this type of board ;)

Hello Alexander,

thanks for your report!

The problem is the locked ME region. We are working on unlocking it or
working around it, but intel does not provide us any documentation so
please do not expect a solution soon (or ever).

I have added the board to our list of (un)supported boards (with an
appropriate note) and will commit that later together with other small
changes.

[Alexander List]

On Friday, March 15, 2013 07:36 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> The problem is the locked ME region. We are working on unlocking it or
> working around it, but intel does not provide us any documentation so
> please do not expect a solution soon (or ever). I have added the board
> to our list of (un)supported boards (with an appropriate note) and
> will commit that later together with other small changes.

Hi Stefan!

Thanks!

If there is anything I can do please let me know. Supermicro support are
quite responsive. But having to boot into DOS to flash in 2013 is a joke ;)

cheers

Alex

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:48:49 +0800
Alexander List  wrote:
> If there is anything I can do please let me know. Supermicro support are
> quite responsive. But having to boot into DOS to flash in 2013 is a joke ;)

You could ask them if it is safe to update the BIOS region only. That
is possible in general but will need some patches that will be added
in the next weeks. You could also ask how they update the ME region, but
you will even less likely get an answer to that.