[coreboot] Supermicro H8QGI-F (Quad G34) - blob status?

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 02/06/2017 07:48 PM, Taiidan at gmx.com wrote:
> https://www.coreboot.org/Board:supermicro/h8qgi
> 
> A quad g34 with 1TB RAM would be nice to have...
> 
> I am creating a beginners guide with all the new enough to be useful and
> easily available brand new in box boards, I am curious if anyone uses
> this as I have the following questions:
> 
> - Does it work without blobs? (what happens if you don't include the
> video bios blob? can you still get video via seabios or linux?)
> - Can you de-activate the on-board iKVM? (sketchy, it seems to have an
> interface to one of the regular nics too)
> - Are there any problems with reaching the full OEM 1TB spec RAM (like
> where the kgpe-d16 can only go to 192gb instead of the spec'ed 256
> 
> 

This board uses AGESA exclusively for coreboot support.  AGESA has not
been audited to remove binary blobs, therefore it is unknown if this
board can function correctly blob-free with the current coreboot sources.

Furthermore, there is no indication this board functions at all with
coreboot in its current form.  There are no public test results, and a
number of mailing list posts showing problems with the SuperMicro G34
boards.

Finally, the BMC will be an issue on this board.  I don't know if it can
be deactivated without damaging the functionality of the board, but if
it cannot then you are looking at a BMC port as well.

In a nutshell, unless someone has a few months of spare time at minimum
to port this board over to the native Family 15h support code, or some
cash lying around to have Raptor do it, this mainboard isn't really
supported.

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Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering
+1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line)
+1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard)
https://www.raptorengineering.com
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