FYI - MinnowBoard MAX firmware revision 0.76 is available

Sorry for the spam, but I wanted to be sure that anyone who was using an MBM knew that there was a new Firmware version released. It also has a new home (http://firmware.intel.com/projects/minnowboard-max)

-p

-----Original Message-----
From: elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:xxxxx@lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of John Hawley
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 10:27 PM
To: MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
Subject: [MinnowBoard] Firmware: 0.76 out

I got this up onto the various social media outlets earlier today, but I wanted to make sure everyone was aware that the firmware team has gotten
0.76 out and available and it has a new home at http://firmware.intel.com/projects/minnowboard-max

Some of you will find that your old links may be broken right now, a series of events has made the transition over to the new site a bit more problematic for the firmware team, and they are still trying to track down redirects that aren’t working. If you uncover a URL that isn’t redirecting properly (likely sending you to iafirmware.com) e-mail me off list and I’ll let them know, and get it fixed.

0.76 is actually 3 releases in 1, as it rolls up all the changes since 0.73, including 0.74 and 0.75 (both releases were cancelled due to issues found late in their respective testing cycles).

Things to note in the release:

  • First Single & Dual core firmware
  • new GOP (graphics) driver
  • updated PXE stack (IPv4&6)
  • UEFI shell 2
  • Source now on, and developed at, Tianocore
  • Serial console should be roughly as verbose as HDMI
  • Added key as a firmware hotkey ( is still there but it’s a pain to type over serial)
    - Lots of bugfixes

    It’s been a while since a firmware went out, and this one has a lot of good stuff in it, and I’d generally recommend folks upgrade, with the standard caveats about upgrading firmware on a system.

    If you have problems ask about them here, IRC, social media or file a bug and we’ll try to get things resolved!

    - John ‘Warthog9’ Hawley
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“Spam” like this is not only allowed, it’s actually welcome.

Thanks for the update PeterWie!

Peter
OSR
@OSRDrivers

While we’re on this topic (or off-topic), anyone know who makes or where I can get similar boards but with the new Intel Atom E3805 chip instead?

It’s like the 3815 but without any video whatsoever (entirely headless), and has a TDP of only 3W.