Michael Bacarella has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/30024
Change subject: Clarify minor detail on preparing a layout file ......................................................................
Clarify minor detail on preparing a layout file
The user needs to pass the original firmware image to create a layout file, not the newly compiled coreboot image.
Signed-off-by: Michael Bacarella michael.bacarella@gmail.com Change-Id: If47a88f06076da12d8da7a873c3e5ef64fc1f877 --- M Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/24/30024/1
diff --git a/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md b/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md index 1a29137..eb74ad0 100644 --- a/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md +++ b/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md @@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ to write only a part of the flash IC. On Intel for example there are IFD, ME and GBE which don't need to be updated to install coreboot. To make [flashrom] only write the *bios* region, leaving Intel ME and Intel IFD -untouched, you can use a layout file, which can be created using ifdtool +untouched, you can use a layout file, which can be created with ifdtool and a backup +of the original firmware.
```bash -ifdtool -f rom.layout coreboot.rom +ifdtool -f rom.layout backup.rom ```
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