Hi Daniel,

On 17.09.21 18:06, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote:
> I plan to flash a Thinkpad T430. According to an article in the german 
> "golem.de" magazine [1] accessing the flash via SPI is possible by connecting 
> the wires from the SPI flasher to plug contacts on the upper side of the 
> board - without disassembling the whole device. Unfortunately, I was unable 
> to find the details regarding these contacts neither in the coreboot docs nor 
> anywhere else. Did I look in the wrong places or is this simply not 
> publically documented?

I don't know any documentation about this. But a good reference are
the schematics which can usually be found easily on the web for these
old Thinkpads. Just google for the code name[2], this one should be
nozomi-4.

Don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for. But there
are two headers shown, much like in the "example" *wink* ;) picture
attached. There, J27 is for emulation of both flash chips and J14
is for directly flashing the second chip. I guess J14 can be used
for flashing the first chip too, by using -SPI_CS0 from J27. But
you will definitely want to attach VCC at J14 because that's where
the board is protected by a diode.

Hope that helps,
Nico

> [1] 
> https://www.golem.de/news/coreboot-und-nitrokey-mein-acht-jahre-alter-laptop-wird-zur-festung-2012-152931.html
[2] https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/lenovo/codenames.html
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