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| author | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2015-07-18 19:31:16 (EDT) |
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| committer | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2015-09-20 04:06:27 (EDT) |
| commit | d1bb5d6fcc75f07ca6a58b5536906980aff9d253 (patch) | |
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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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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/install/index.html b/docs/install/index.html index 56d5048..b0df387 100644 --- a/docs/install/index.html +++ b/docs/install/index.html @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ <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/> |