Re: [flashrom] SuperMicro H8QME2 motherboards work great with Flashrom

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:36:51 -0400
Greg Tippitt  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.

SuperMicro H8QME2 motherboards work great with Flashrom

[Greg Tippitt]

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
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On 5/1/14, Stefan Tauner  wrote:nce
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:36:51 -0400
> Greg Tippitt  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.