On 2017-03-18 at 18:00, Sam Kuper wrote: > The page > https://www.coreboot.org/index.php?title=Board:lenovo/x201&oldid=24709#Flashing > says: > > > The flash memory in the X201 is divided into roughly 4 parts: > > > > - Descriptor (12K) > > - ME firmware (5M-12K) > > - Rewriteable flash (3M-96K) > > - Locked bootblock (96K) > > I guess that "K" refers to kibibytes and that "M" refers to mebibytes.
Correct. > I also guess that the values in parentheses refer to the sizes of the > corresponding occupants of the flash memory, with the "-" symbol > representing "minus". This was not my first guess, but is the one that > seems to make the most sense. I'm not familiar with Ibex Peak's standard flash layout, but this sounds correct. The 12-KiB "Descriptor" should contain both the Intel Flash Descriptor and the Gigabit Ethernet Region. And the region sizes by that math add up to 8 MiB, which sounds right. -- Patrick "P. J." McDermott: http://www.pehjota.net/ Lead Developer, ProteanOS: http://www.proteanos.com/ Founder and CEO, Libiquity: http://www.libiquity.com/ -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
