1# Hermes 2 3Hermes is a regular ATX board designed for workstation PCs. 4 5The board features: 6* 5 PCIe 16x Gen3 slots 7* 4 ECC capable DDR4 DIMMs 8* 5 dedicated Ethernet ports 9* 1 BMC Ethernet port 10* VGA 11* COM port 12* 2 COM port headers 13* 4 SATA ports, 14* NVMe M2 slot 15* CNVi M2 slot 16* 3 optional DisplayPort outputs 17* optional TPM2 18 19## Required proprietary blobs 20 21- [Intel FSP2.0] 22- Intel SPS 23 24## Flashing coreboot 25 26* The BIOS flash can be updated over the BMC, but the update file has a proprietary format 27* For development a dediprog compatible pinheader is present which allows to use an EM100 28 29## Known issues 30 31- MRC caching does not work on cold boot with Intel SPS (see [Intel FSP2.0]) 32 33## Technology 34 35```{eval-rst} 36+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ 37| CPU | CoffeeLake + CoffeeLake R (Core + Xeon) | 38+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ 39| PCH | Intel C246 | 40+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ 41| Coprocessor | Intel SPS (server version of the ME) | 42+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ 43| Super I/O | none | 44+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ 45| BMC | Aspeed AST2500 | 46+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ 47``` 48 49## Extra links 50 51[flashrom]: https://flashrom.org/Flashrom 52[flashing tutorial]: ../../tutorial/flashing_firmware/ext_power.md 53[Intel FSP2.0]: ../../soc/intel/fsp/index.md 54[AST2500]: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440 55