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| author | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2014-12-28 14:42:48 (EST) |
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| committer | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2014-12-28 14:52:15 (EST) |
| commit | 417e9e7f3db8f2f67577e7caf57812ffb1b2ddb4 (patch) | |
| tree | 663d89dc6cf143b2ca2b1431198c41797943db79 /docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html | |
| parent | c2bcf9939787448416f697e2c9dea985cc8beef8 (diff) | |
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docs (X200): update flashing guide
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diff --git a/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html b/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html index cda9bd8..3d72951 100644 --- a/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html +++ b/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ get X200 support in libreboot (the machine can also work without the microcode blobs). </p> <p> + The ME is removed and disabled in libreboot by modifying the descriptor. More info about + this can be found in the ich9deblob/ich9gen source code in resources/utilities/ich9deblob/ + in libreboot, or more generally on this page. + </p> + <p> Or <a href="x200.html">back to main X200 compatibility page (x200.html)</a>. </p> @@ -39,7 +44,7 @@ <p> It is no longer necessary to use <a href="#ich9deblob">ich9deblob</a> to generate - a deblobbed descriptor+gme image for the X200. ich9gen is a small utility within + a deblobbed descriptor+gbe image for the X200. ich9gen is a small utility within ich9deblob that can generate them from scratch, without a factory.bin dump. </p> @@ -52,8 +57,8 @@ Two new files will be created: </p> <ul> - <li>ich9fdgbe_4m.bin: this is for X200 laptops with the 4MB flash chip.</li> - <li>ich9fdgbe_8m.bin: this is for X200 laptops with the 8MB flash chip.</li> + <li><b>ich9fdgbe_4m.bin</b>: this is for X200 laptops with the 4MB flash chip.</li> + <li><b>ich9fdgbe_8m.bin</b>: this is for X200 laptops with the 8MB flash chip.</li> </ul> <p> @@ -73,7 +78,9 @@ </p> <p> - Your X200 libreboot.rom image is now ready to be flashed on the machine. + Your X200 libreboot.rom image is now ready to be flashed on the machine. Refer back to + <a href="../install/index.html#flashrom_x200">../install/index.html#flashrom_x200</a> + for how to flash it. </p> <hr/> @@ -84,6 +91,11 @@ <b>This is no longer strictly necessary. Libreboot ROM images for X200 now contain the 12KiB descriptor+gbe generated from ich9gen, by default.</b> </p> + + <p> + This was the tool originally used to disable the ME on X200. <a href="#ich9gen">ich9gen</a> now supersedes it; + ich9gen is better because it does not rely on dumping the factory.rom image (whereas, ich9deblob does). + </p> <p> This is what you will use to generate the deblobbed descriptor+gbe regions for your libreboot ROM image. |