[coreboot] Re: X220 and coreboot?

2020-02-12 Thread Eero Volotinen
Well. Sorry, if this is very stupid question, but trying to follow instructions at: https://thiccpad.blogspot.com/# Step: *ifdtool -x original.bin # original.bin** is the firmware you read from the motherboard* *and I don't have this original.bin as it readed from bios chip of motherboard?* *Is

[coreboot] Re: X220 and coreboot?

2020-02-12 Thread Christoph Zechner
Ah, I see. I guess, you could flash coreboot on your device, but I REALLY would advice to make a backup of your existing BIOS first, in case anything goes wrong Cheers Christoph On 2020-02-12 11:48, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Well. Sorry, if this is very stupid question, but trying to follow > in

[coreboot] Re: X220 and coreboot?

2020-02-12 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Eero, to switch from vendor firmware to coreboot, on an X220, you need either an external flash programmer or a slight hardware modification (connect a certain pin to disable flash protections). The latter requires a very fragile software procedure. Otherwise, you won't be able to write to t

[coreboot] Re: X220 and coreboot?

2020-02-13 Thread Christoph Zechner
Hi, On 2020-02-12 11:11, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Hi List, > > Does anyone have dump of this bios as I don't have spi programmer? :( > do you need a ready-to-flash coreboot ROM? Did I understand correctly? Cheers Christoph > Eero > > ___ > coreboot