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<p>It looks like the X230 already has a large flash chip (BOARD_ROMSIZE_12288?). How big were you thinking? The main issue would be that chips bigger than 16MB use 4-byte addresses and the SPI controller in Ivy Bridge probably only supports 3-byte addresses.<span style="font-family:monospace"><br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> coreboot <coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org> on behalf of Marek Behun <kabel@blackhole.sk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 11, 2017 8:09:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> coreboot@coreboot.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [coreboot] ThinkPad X230 alternative flash chips?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hello, does someone know if it is possible to solder a bigger flash<br>
chip onto ThinkPad X230? Would it work? It would be awesome if I could<br>
fit a bigger kernel as a payload...<br>
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