Michael Bacarella has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/30028
Change subject: Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md: warn about dots painted on ICs ......................................................................
Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md: warn about dots painted on ICs
I fried my mainboard because I tried to orient my chip by lining a blue dot on the corner of my chip with a dot depicted on the chip datasheet. They apparently have nothing to do with each other, and this is normal. Add warning about this to the docs to hopefully spare others from a similar fate.
Signed-off-by: Michael Bacarella michael.bacarella@gmail.com Change-Id: Ib634589aaa11f75bde2ef2e13d2cacc4cae19a3f --- M Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/28/30028/1
diff --git a/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md b/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md index eb74ad0..342f55b 100644 --- a/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md +++ b/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ **WARNING:** Using the wrong method or accidentally using the wrong pinout might permanently damage your hardware!
+**WARNING:** Do not rely on any dots painted on flash ICs to orient the pins! Although you may find dots on data sheet diagrams, they often do not correspond to dots painted on the flash IC. + ## Using a layout file On platforms where the flash IC is shared with other components you might want to write only a part of the flash IC. On Intel for example there are IFD, ME and