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| author | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2016-03-10 23:28:49 (EST) |
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| committer | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2016-03-10 23:33:19 (EST) |
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diff --git a/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html b/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html index 95e9cd2..8a6513d 100644 --- a/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html +++ b/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html @@ -110,17 +110,6 @@ <li><b>ich9fdgbe_4m.bin</b>: this is for GM45 laptops with the 4MB flash chip.</li> <li><b>ich9fdgbe_8m.bin</b>: this is for GM45 laptops with the 8MB flash chip.</li> </ul> - - <p> - Two other files will also be created, for the ThinkPad R500 which has a different NIC and, therefore, - no GbE region (for this laptop, it is not necessary to change the MAC address in the flash chip, because - it's burned into the NIC): - </p> - <ul> - <li><b>ich9fdnogbe_4m.bin</b>: this is for ThinkPad R500 laptops with the 4MB flash chip, where no GbE region is to be defined.</li> - <li><b>ich9fdnogbe_8m.bin</b>: this is for ThinkPad R500 laptops with the 8MB flash chip, where no GbE region is to be defined - - <b>NOTE: No actual R500 laptops with 8MiB are believed to exist. It is believed, that all R500 laptops have 4MiB flash chips</b>.</li> - </ul> <p> Assuming that your libreboot image is named <b>libreboot.rom</b>, copy @@ -130,17 +119,6 @@ For 4MiB flash chips:<br/> $ <b>dd if=ich9fdgbe_4m.bin of=libreboot.rom bs=1 count=12k conv=notrunc</b><br/> </p> - <p> - <b>For the ThinkPad R500, do this instead:</b><br/> - For 8MiB flash chips (<b>highly unlikely on the ThinkPad R500)</b>:<br/> - $ <b>dd if=ich9fdnogbe_8m.bin of=libreboot.rom bs=1 count=4k conv=notrunc</b><br/> - For 4MiB flash chips (<b>You probably have this)</b>:<br/> - $ <b>dd if=ich9fdnogbe_4m.bin of=libreboot.rom bs=1 count=4k conv=notrunc</b><br/> - NOTE: This shouldn't be necessary. Libreboot ROM images already contain a descriptor embedded inside - the ROM images for GM45, generated by the ich9gen utility. It's only desirable to re-insert your own - when changing the MAC address, which is unnecessary (actually impossible) on the R500, because on that laptop, - as already stated, the NIC already has the correct MAC address burned in, along with along configuration data. - </p> <p> Your libreboot.rom image is now ready to be flashed on the system. Refer back to |