MSI PRO Z790-P (WIFI) (DDR4) Dasharo (coreboot + Heads) Release Notes
Following Release Notes describe status of Dasharo (coreboot + Heads) firmware development compatible with MSI PRO Z790-P boards.
Please note that in order for the Heads to work correctly with the MSI motherboard, two additional components are required:
- TPM 2.0 MSI MS-4462, available at our store.
- Nitrokey 3A Mini, also available for purchase at our store.
The Heads currently supports only integrated graphics (a non-F CPU). Discrete graphics is NOT supported by the standard build.
v0.9.0 - 2024-03-21
Test results for this release can be found here.
Added
- MSI PRO Z790-P board support with the same feature set as PRO Z690-A
- MSI FLASHBIOS recovery support
- Raptor Lake-S CPU support
- Dual TPM feature in coreboot. When ME is disabled, fTPM becomes inactive as well and chipset will route the TPM traffic to SPI bus. coreboot will now probe for all possible TPMs and initialize the one that is currently active.
- This is a Dasharo Pro Package release
- Use new microcode version, refer to SBOM
- Use new ME version, refer to SBOM
- Make NVIDIA RTX 3060 spawn HD Audio device in Device Manager
- Heads Linux is used as a payload
- Flash Descriptor with larger BIOS region; refer to SBOM section below
- ME hardcoded to be HAP disabled for heads builds. Discrete SPI TPM in JTPM1 header is required to provide TPM functionality.
Known issues
Binaries
This is a Dasharo Pro Package Release. To obtain access to the pre-built binaries you will have to become the Dasharo Pro Package subscriber. You will get the access to all of the firmware updates for the duration of the subscription via Dasharo Pro Package newsletter.
To verify binary integrity with hash and signature please follow the instructions in Dasharo release signature verification using this key
SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)
- Dasharo heads fork based on v0.2.0 revision 13aa08ce
- Dasharo coreboot fork based on 4.21 revision 38215f5a
- Intel Management Engine based on v16.1.30.2307 revision d0b63476
- Intel Flash Descriptor based on v1.2 revision d0b63476
- Intel Firmware Support Package based on RPL-S C.0.BD.40 revision 481ea7cf
- Intel microcode based on ADL/RPL C0/H0 0x0000002e revision microcode-20230808
- Intel microcode based on RPL B0 0x00000119 revision microcode-20230808