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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-07-18 19:31:16 (EDT)
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New board: ThinkPad R500 (experimental)
The ich9deblob and ich9gen utilities were modified, so that they support reading and/or writing descriptor images where the GbE region is not defined. These utilities were also re-factored and tidied up a bit. A quick was noticed during the course of this work, in that Compenent 1 Density was being set to 8MiB constantly, even on systems with 4MiB flash chips. Component 2 Density was set statically to 2MiB. ich9gen now sets both to 4MiB or 8MiB, depending on whether building the descriptor for a 4MiB or 8MiB ROM image. There are still some ACPI bugs (see docs/hcl/r500.html), which will have to be fixed upstream. TODO: get hw reg dumps from a factory R500, and compare with the X200 or T400 dumps.
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<li><a href="t60_unbrick.html">ThinkPad T60: Recovery guide</a></li>
<li><a href="x200_external.html">ThinkPad X200/X200S/X200T (needed if running the proprietary firmware, or to unbrick)</a></li>
<li><a href="r400_external.html">ThinkPad R400 (needed if running the proprietary firmware, or to unbrick)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="r500_external.html">ThinkPad R500 (needed if running the proprietary firmware, or to unbrick)</a></li>
<li><a href="t400_external.html">ThinkPad T400 (needed if running the proprietary firmware, or to unbrick)</a></li>
<li><a href="t500_external.html">ThinkPad T500 (needed if running the proprietary firmware, or to unbrick)</a></li>
</ul>
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@
<p>
X200 users, refer to <a href="x200_external.html">x200_external.html</a>,
R400 users refer to <a href="r400_external.html">r400_external.html</a>,
+ R500 users refer to <a href="r500_external.html">r500_external.html</a>,
T400 users refer to <a href="t400_external.html">t400_external.html</a>,
T500 users refer to <a href="t500_external.html">t500_external.html</a>
</p>
@@ -194,7 +196,7 @@
</p>
<p>
Similarly, it is possible to write-protect the flash chip in coreboot or libreboot on GM45 laptops
- (X200/R400/T400/T500). If you did this, then you will need to use the links above for flashing,
+ (X200/R400/R500/T400/T500). If you did this, then you will need to use the links above for flashing,
treating your laptop as though it currently has the proprietary firmware (because write-protected SPI flash
requires external re-flashing, as is also the case when running the proprietary firmware).
</p>
@@ -222,7 +224,15 @@
and assuming that your current firmware has the correct MAC address in it, you can get it from your OS.
</p>
- <h2>Flash chip size on GM45 (X200/R400/T400/T500)</h2>
+ <p>
+ <b>
+ R500 users: your laptop lacks a GbE region, because it has a different NIC. You do not need to change the MAC
+ address on this laptop; it will already be correct. You can simply flash the available ROM images for the R500, as-is.
+ See <a href="../hcl/r500.html#nogbe">../hcl/r500.html#nogbe</a>.
+ </b>
+ </p>
+
+ <h2>Flash chip size</h2>
<p>
Use this to find out:<br/>