Basically what it says on the tin. One of my X200 systems works with flashrom's internal programmer, as expected, but a recently acquired one does not, I get the error about unsupported laptop. Using the laptop:force_I_want_a_brick option seems to work, I've used it to update a few times.
Attached are the requested command outputs, dmidecode and lspci -nn. System is currently running Libreboot beta. Flashrom version tested was 0.9.9 on several distros.
If there's any other info required feel free to request it. Thanks.
Hello Alexander,
On 06.08.2016 12:28, Alexander Waldmann wrote:
Basically what it says on the tin. One of my X200 systems works with flashrom's internal programmer, as expected, but a recently acquired one does not, I get the error about unsupported laptop. Using the laptop:force_I_want_a_brick option seems to work, I've used it to update a few times.
Attached are the requested command outputs, dmidecode and lspci -nn. System is currently running Libreboot beta. Flashrom version tested was 0.9.9 on several distros.
your X200 has a different version of the ICH9 southbridge (ICH9M [8086: 2919] instead of ICH9M-E [8086:2917], the AMT enabled variant). Please try the following: Duplicate the X200 line in board_enable.c and replace 2917 with 2919 in the duplicate. If the board detection works, please send a verbose log (-o option) of your next flash update together with the patch.
Regards, Nico
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 18:31:15 +0200 Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de wrote:
Hello Alexander,
On 06.08.2016 12:28, Alexander Waldmann wrote:
Basically what it says on the tin. One of my X200 systems works with flashrom's internal programmer, as expected, but a recently acquired one does not, I get the error about unsupported laptop. Using the laptop:force_I_want_a_brick option seems to work, I've used it to update a few times.
Attached are the requested command outputs, dmidecode and lspci -nn. System is currently running Libreboot beta. Flashrom version tested was 0.9.9 on several distros.
your X200 has a different version of the ICH9 southbridge (ICH9M [8086: 2919] instead of ICH9M-E [8086:2917], the AMT enabled variant). Please try the following: Duplicate the X200 line in board_enable.c and replace 2917 with 2919 in the duplicate. If the board detection works, please send a verbose log (-o option) of your next flash update together with the patch.
Regards, Nico
What you suggested seems to have done the trick. Log attached is writing a patched Lenovo BIOS to my flash, also the layout file as I only wrote the "bios" region. Writing the rest would've caused problems.
I don't actually know how to generate patches, or whether anything else on the duplicated line needs to be altered so I haven't done that.
Cheers.
(Also apologies for the very late response I accidentally mailed to the wrong place, I assume.)
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Nico Huber