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  • Radek Pietruszewskiradex@hackerspace.pl
    Oct 14, 2026, 12:43 PM

    For some context: @hswaw is a volunteer-ran non-profit community of tinkerers. This Supermicro is our best gear, and it supports not just our services, but those of 3 other hackerspaces. And soon, it will support @mykoryza -- a non-profit that aims to host web services (such as Fediverse) for the public.

    If that's something you'd like to support, you can :)

    a 2U supermicro blade server - with four nodes (2x EPYC 7001 series CPU, 128GB of DDR4). Above it, an experimental multi-node SAS hard drive chassis made by yours truly. Lots of cables.
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  • meimei@donotsta.re
    Oct 14, 2026, 1:54 PM
    @radex @hswaw @mykoryza wait, so the idea is to dump the firmware from a 2.x motherboard, to be able to upgrade 1.x to 2.x? (I'm a bit confused as to what the call to action is here. granted, i don't have any such mobo on hand, but...)
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  • Radek Pietruszewskiradex@hackerspace.pl
    Oct 14, 2026, 2:11 PM

    @mei @mykoryza @hswaw we have v1 mobo that only supports Zen 1 EPYCs. v2 supports Zen 2. We can download v2 firmware and we know it does not fit in 16MB. We also know v2 has 32MB Flash chip. We suspect that soldering a larger chip for the newer firmware to fit might be enough for Zen2 to work. But it’s risky to YOLO it. Being able to carefully compare the two revisions side by side could tell us if there are other significant differences.

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