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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-02-15 01:42:01 (EST)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-02-15 01:42:01 (EST)
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ich9macchange: assume that the script is being run from _util
Do not act on all ROM images, but instead take as input a path to a single ROM image.
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@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@
</p>
<p>
+ Two new files will be created:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <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>
You can find out your MAC address from <b>ip addr</b> or <b>ifconfig</b> in GNU/Linux.
Alternatively, if you are running libreboot already (with the correct MAC address in your
ROM), dump it (flashrom -r) and read the first 6 bytes from position 0x1000 (or 0x2000) in a hex editor
@@ -81,18 +89,11 @@
</p>
<p>
- A bash script is also included in libreboot which will change the mac address (using ich9gen)
+ A bash script is also included in libreboot_util which will change the mac address (using ich9gen)
on all GM45 ROM images. For instance:<br/>
- $ <b>./ich9macchange XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX</b>
+ $ <b>./ich9macchange path/to/libreboot.rom XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX romsize</b><br/>
+ <b>romsize</b> should be 4 or 8, depending on whether the ROM image is for a 4MiB or 8MiB flash chip.
</p>
-
- <p>
- Two new files will be created:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <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>
ich9gen executables can be found under ./ich9deblob/ statically compiled in