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| author | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2015-04-03 08:04:22 (EDT) |
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| committer | Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> | 2015-04-03 08:04:22 (EDT) |
| commit | 94c5e28543c57b03d2f5e73d579cfe88f3885e4d (patch) | |
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docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html: less confusing notes about ich9gen
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diff --git a/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html b/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html index b1ab1f0..cec55b6 100644 --- a/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html +++ b/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html @@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ <h1 id="ich9gen">ICH9 gen utility</h1> <p> - <b>This is no longer strictly necessary. Libreboot ROM images for GM45 now - contain the 12KiB descriptor+gbe generated from ich9gen, by default.</b> - </p> - - <p> It is no longer necessary to use <a href="#ich9deblob">ich9deblob</a> to generate a deblobbed descriptor+gbe image for GM45 targets. ich9gen is a small utility within ich9deblob that can generate them from scratch, without a factory.bin dump. @@ -60,7 +55,19 @@ </p> <p> - It is also possible to generate a descriptor+gbe image with your own MAC address + Running ich9gen this way (without any arguments) generates + a default descriptor+gbe image with a generic MAC address. + You probably don't want to use the generic one; the ROM images + in libreboot contain a descriptor+gbe image by default (already + inserted) just to prevent or mitigate the risk of bricking + your laptop, but with the generic MAC address (the libreboot + project does not know what your real MAC address is). + </p> + + <p> + On GM45 laptops that use flash descriptors, the MAC address + or the onboard ethernet chipset is flashed (inside the ROM image). + You should generate a descriptor+gbe image with your own MAC address inside (with the Gbe checksum updated to match). Run:<br/> $ <b>./ich9gen --macaddress XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX</b><br/> (replace the XX chars with the hexadecimal chars in the MAC address that you want) |