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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#hardware_requirements">Hardware Requirements</a></li>
- <li><a href="#software_requirements">Software Requirements</a></li>
<li>
Types of brick:
<ul>
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</li>
</ul>
- <h1 id="hardware_requirements">Hardware requirements</h1>
- <ul>
- <li>a 2nd computer (maybe another X60 Tablet. any computer will do)</li>
- <li>external flashrom-compatible programmer (I'm using the "bus pirate")
- <li>SOIC-8 IC clip (I'm using the Pomona 5250)</li>
- <li>Cable (programmer&lt;&gt;clip) - mine came with the bus pirate.</li>
- <li>USB mini a to b cable (for buspirate&lt;&gt;computer connection).</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h1 id="software_requirements">Software requirements</h1>
- <ul>
- <li>GNU/Linux (on the 2nd computer)</li>
- <li>flashrom software (on the 2nd computer): <a href="http://flashrom.org/">http://flashrom.org/</a>
- </ul>
-
<h1 id="bucts_brick">Brick type 1: bucts not reset.</h1>
<p>
You still have Lenovo BIOS, or you had libreboot running and you flashed another ROM; and you had bucts 1 set and
@@ -126,65 +109,42 @@
Remove that screw and then remove the board:<br/>
<img src="../images/x60t_unbrick/0009.JPG" alt="" />
</p>
-
+
<p>
- At this point, you should wire up your programmer according to it's documentation. For me, this was (see: "SparkFun cable pin reference"):<br/>
- <a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Common_Bus_Pirate_cable_pinouts">http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Common_Bus_Pirate_cable_pinouts</a>.<br/>
- Correlating with the following information, I was able to wire up my pirate correctly:<br/>
- <a href="http://flashrom.org/Bus_Pirate#Connections">http://flashrom.org/Bus_Pirate#Connections</a><br/>
- And by following that advice:<br/>
- <a href="http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation#Howto">http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation#Howto</a>.<br/>
- Note: that last page says to wire up only those 5 pins (see below) like that: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.<br/>
- Note: and then, for power it says (on that coreboot.org page) to connect the power jack to the board and connect the
- AC adapter (without powering on the board).<br/>
- Note: I ignored that advice, and wired up all 8 pins. And it worked.<br/>
-
- Here is the pinout (correlate it with your programmer's documentation):<br/>
+ Now wire up the BBB and the Pomona with your PSU.<br/>
+ Refer to <a href="bbb_setup.html">bbb_setup.html</a> for how to setup
+ the BBB for flashing.<br/>
+ <b>Note, the guide mentions a 3.3v DC PSU but you don't need this on the X60 Tablet:
+ if you don't have or don't want to use an external PSU, then make
+ sure not to connect the red/black 3.3v leads mentioned in the guide;
+ instead, connect the AC adapter (the one that normally charges your
+ battery) so that the board has power (but don't boot it up)</b>
<img src="../images/x60t_unbrick/0011.JPG" alt="" /><br/>
- (SPI chip here is on the bottom of the board)
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Bus pirate:<br/>
- <img src="../images/x60_unbrick/0019.jpg" alt="" />
+ Correlate the following with the BBB guide linked above:
</p>
+<pre>
+POMONA 5250:
+=== golden finger and wifi switch ====
+ 18 - - 1
+ 22 - - NC ---------- audio jacks are on this end
+ NC - - 21
+ 3.3V PSU RED - - 17 - this is pin 1 on the flash chip
+=== CPU fan ===
+<i>This is how you will connect. Numbers refer to pin numbers on the BBB, on the plugs near the DC jack.</i>
+</pre>
<p>
- Pomona 5250:<br/>
- <img src="../images/x60_unbrick/0020.jpg" alt="" />
+ Connecting the BBB and pomona (in this image, an external 3.3v DC PSU was used):<br/>
+ <img src="images/x60/th_bbb_flashing.jpg" alt="" />
</p>
<p>
- Connect pomona:<br/>
- <img src="../images/x60_unbrick/0022.jpg" alt="" />
+ SSH'd into the BBB:<br/>
+ # <b>./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev1.0,spispeed=512 -w yourrom.rom</b>
</p>
-
- <p>
- Connect pirate to USB on 2nd computer:<br/>
- <img src="../images/x60_unbrick/0024.jpg" alt="" />
- </p>
-
- <p>
- <img src="../images/x60_unbrick/0025.jpg" alt="" />
- </p>
-
- <p>
- On the 2nd machine, I did: <b>flashrom -p buspirate_spi:dev=/dev/ttyUSB0 -w bin/x60t/libreboot_ukqwerty.rom</b>
- </p>
-
- <pre>
- flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-61-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian
- flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
-
- Calibrating delay loop... delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
- Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L1605" (2048 kB, SPI) on buspirate_spi.
- Reading old flash chip contents... done.
- Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
- Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
- </pre>
-
<p>
- At the end it says "VERIFIED", which means that the procedure worked. If you see this, it means that you can put your X60T back together. So let's do that now.
+ It should be <b>Verifying flash... VERIFIED</b> at the end. If flashrom complains about multiple flash chip
+ definitions detected, then choose one of them following the instructions in the output.
</p>
<p>