# Hermes

Hermes is a regular ATX board designed for workstation PCs.

The board features:

- 5 PCIe 16x Gen3 slots

- 4 ECC capable DDR4 DIMMs

- 5 dedicated Ethernet ports

- 1 BMC Ethernet port

- VGA

- COM port

- 2 COM port headers

- 4 SATA ports,

- NVMe M2 slot

- CNVi M2 slot

- 3 optional DisplayPort outputs

- optional TPM2

## Required proprietary blobs

- Intel FSP2.0

- Intel SPS

## Flashing coreboot

- The BIOS flash can be updated over the BMC, but the update file has a proprietary format

- For development a dediprog compatible pinheader is present which allows to use an EM100

## Known issues

- MRC caching does not work on cold boot with Intel SPS (see Intel FSP2.0)

## Technology

CPU | CoffeeLake + CoffeeLake R (Core + Xeon)
PCH | Intel C246
Coprocessor | Intel SPS (server version of the ME)
Super I/O | none
BMC | Aspeed AST2500

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