Board:sapphire/pureplatinumh61

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Status

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Tested and working:

• Linux (through SeaBIOS, GRUB or Tianocore as payload)
• Microsoft Windows 7 with VGA blob (through SeaBIOS as payload)
• Internal GPU, both with VGA blob and libgfxinit (VGA and DVI)
• External GPU
• S3 (Suspend to RAM)
• RAM module combinations of 0+4G, 4G+4G, 0+8G, 8G+8G, 4G+8G
• USB 2.0
• USB 3.0
• Sata
• Thermal management
• Sound
• LAN
• Bluetooth
• VT-x and VT-d

Not working:

• Internal flashing with flashrom after a S3 resume

Untested:

• Backside Mini PCI-E port
• DisplayPort and HDMI ports

Proprietary components status

• CPU Microcode
• VGA Option ROM (optional, not needed with Linux as libgfxinit works well enough)
• ME (Management Engine) firmware (works well with a stripped Intel ME firmware, select "Strip down the Intel ME/TXE firmware" during the build)

Building

No special step is needed for this board, just follow the usual build steps.

Flashing

This board is equipped with a single SST25VF032B 4 MB chip. The chip is in a black plastic socket close to the edge of the board, next to the USB 2.0 headers.

Flash dumps can be manually extracted from the chip (with an external flasher or with the OEM BIOS tool) or they can be downloaded from the Sapphire's website (Download -> Motherboard BIOS -> Download, the dump in the zip is called SIH61xxx.ME).

An external programmer is required for the first coreboot flash; once coreboot is installed and working you can flash new versions internally with

sudo flashrom -p internal -c SST25VF032B -w build/coreboot.rom

WARNING: internal flashing WILL fail if you do it after a S3 resume and it WILL brick your board, requiring an external programmer to unbrick it. If you're unsure, just reboot before using flashrom.