Adding Opteron 2300-series "Barcelona" support to Sun Ultra 40 M2 Socket F bios

[TheWiz]

Calculating the offsets in IDA and or a Hex editor will serve you well. Did you check your BIOS to see if any of the images had a ROM called "_C0x.PEI "? This may be where your icrocode is hiding.

TheWiz

[envision]

Resurrected!

Thanks for your continued input TheWiz. You've been very helpful.

I went out and bought a PLCC remover. I'm going to source a chip and a writer, so any real testing will have to wait a couple weeks.

Thank you both for your work into this!
- Do you have any status update on this project?
- Can you bring it to completion and deliver a working BIOS?
- What is the official list of quad / hex core AMD cores that share HARDWARE support with the Ultra-40 M2?
- What is the subset list of cores your new BIOS will support?

I am a software engineer and know nothing about BIOS, I admit. However I might be able to throw a small amount of cash your way, if someone could deliver this BIOS update, preferably as a bootable ISO. Quad-Core is important for me, hex-core would just be awesome. Two major features of the Quad-Core that are immediately valuable to me:

1) OpenSolaris / Solaris11 DOES NOT support power-stepping in the AMD-Dual-Core Opteron (because it's "too old".. ). The Quad-Core's power-stepping is supported. (In the mean time these solaris boxes are running full throttle!)

2) Improved/newer Virtualization features on-chip.


Like many, I bought these from Sun on the promise of a Quad-Core Upgrade path and am not happy with them. I would be very supportive and gracious of a community effort to bang this out however!

Sincerely,
Envision

[nochristrequired]

I never found time to complete this project...

I'm still interested im getting this done. I'd like to pay someone who is experienced in these matters to help update the AGESA in this BIOS.

Is anyone interested in taking this on? I'm willing to pay $80 per hour for your efforts, but you must be knowledgable. I will also help as much as I can.

[nochristrequired]

The U40 uses the SST49LF080 LPC flash chip-

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDeta...F080A3CNHE

I picked up a couple of these yesterday. Still looking for the hardware to flash these. (*edit* I'll likely hot swap and flash using flashrom)

I've also ordered two matched 'Barcelona' Opteron 2360's

[joshone]

I would like to support your efforts even monitarily if need be. Please keep us posted on your progress.

[flyinmx5]

Hello, there-

Although I joined the website just today, I have been actively following this ( and every other related ) thread for quite some time... Any progress? I have the same system and want to do this too, I may be able to assist ( I have a PROM programmer ), please advise, thanks!

Regards,

Glenn

The U40 uses the SST49LF080 LPC flash chip-

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDeta...F080A3CNHE

I picked up a couple of these yesterday. Still looking for the hardware to flash these. (*edit* I'll likely hot swap and flash using flashrom)

I've also ordered two matched 'Barcelona' Opteron 2360's

[haakkern]

Hello, there-

Although I joined the website just today, I have been actively following this ( and every other related ) thread for quite some time... Any progress? I have the same system and want to do this too, I may be able to assist ( I have a PROM programmer ), please advise, thanks!

Regards,

Glenn

The U40 uses the SST49LF080 LPC flash chip-

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDeta...F080A3CNHE

I picked up a couple of these yesterday. Still looking for the hardware to flash these. (*edit* I'll likely hot swap and flash using flashrom)

I've also ordered two matched 'Barcelona' Opteron 2360's

Hello peeeps..

I got a question is it possible to update the microcode in my Quad core Operton socet 1207 (F)

2: and how ?

The batch on the cpu is os8356wal4bgh

see Here..

and i was looking at This page..

but i need it step by step.. anyone ?

[haakkern]

Hello, there-

Although I joined the website just today, I have been actively following this ( and every other related ) thread for quite some time... Any progress? I have the same system and want to do this too, I may be able to assist ( I have a PROM programmer ), please advise, thanks!

Regards,

Glenn

The U40 uses the SST49LF080 LPC flash chip-

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDeta...F080A3CNHE

I picked up a couple of these yesterday. Still looking for the hardware to flash these. (*edit* I'll likely hot swap and flash using flashrom)

I've also ordered two matched 'Barcelona' Opteron 2360's

Hello peeeps..

I got a question is it possible to update the microcode in my Quad core Operton socet 1207 (F)

2: and how ?

The batch on the cpu is os8356wal4bgh

see Here..

and i was looking at This page..

but i need it step by step.. anyone ?

Hello any sugestions ?

[layla]

Hello! sorry to re-open this old thread but.... I am looking for the latest or anyway a recent bios image available for an old Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation
Someone who still has this machine up and running is willing to help me?
I am sure someone saved a backup of the original .iso images which were available from the old Sun site, or just the bios update files...
From a site i got to know that the latest bios available for this machine was 1.25... but even an earlier version would make me happy!

Unfortuntely the links posted here http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ad...0#pid26240
are not working anymore, and looking the entire web for a bios image I found no other options

Thanks in advance for a possible help!

[suncatalyst]

i have 1.25 installed on my Sun Ultra 40 M2 with Dual Opteron 2220 and id also love to be able to upgrade
to quad core cpu's.

id be interested in poking at this but need to make sure i got a backup on another flash chip before i go and mess up the flash chip

ive found the original flash files from 1.00 to 1.25 so whos interested in helping figure this out?