[coreboot] Re: Installing Core Boot on a Lenovo X230 with a script.

2020-02-22 Thread Evgeny Zinoviev via coreboot
On 2/21/20 9:16 PM, Matt DeVillier wrote: if you want to disable the ME [...], hardware flashing is mandatory). You can also disable ME without external flashing with this patch: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/37115 It will not unlock FD and you can't use more space for coreboot,

[coreboot] Re: Installing Core Boot on a Lenovo X230 with a script.

2020-02-21 Thread Matt DeVillier
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:25 PM Nico Huber wrote: > > On 21.02.20 19:16, Matt DeVillier wrote: > > The x230 requires exploiting a vulnerability in an older UEFI version > > in order to be flashed without external hardware (and even so, is > > limited to flashing the 4MB BIOS region only; if you

[coreboot] Re: Installing Core Boot on a Lenovo X230 with a script.

2020-02-21 Thread Nico Huber
On 21.02.20 19:16, Matt DeVillier wrote: > The x230 requires exploiting a vulnerability in an older UEFI version > in order to be flashed without external hardware (and even so, is > limited to flashing the 4MB BIOS region only; if you want to disable > the ME and use more space for the BIOS

[coreboot] Re: Installing Core Boot on a Lenovo X230 with a script.

2020-02-21 Thread Matt DeVillier
Chromebooks are flashable from a live system because their firmware doesn't software lock the BIOS region as part of the boot process, like all properly implemented UEFI firmware should; instead they a combination of a hardware (jumper/screw/CR50) and software (SPI flash chip registers) locks