[coreboot] Lenovo N20p Chromebook

[John Lewis]

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>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to flash the ROM externally now, but it's telling me it
>>>>> can't
>>>>> disable block protection. It gets as far as trying to erase 0x600000,
>>>>> then
>>>>> goes through all the erase functions, finally crapping out. Do you
>>>>> know
>>>>> how
>>>>> I can work-around that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The write protect screw is removed, right? After that the flash's
>>>> write protect register needs to be updated.  Do you know the status
>>>> register values? Flashrom should be able to do that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it is definitely removed - I didn't put it back in after the
>>> initial
>>> brick. It says the register value is 0x94 - I did also hook up the Bus
>>> Pirate for use with statically linked ChromeOS Flashrom (as the
>>> particular
>>> version I have doesn't have Dediprog support) - I had an idea running
>>> --wp-disable might help, but it didn't recognise the chip and said the
>>> register was already 0x94 (paraphrasing). I am currently compiling a
>>> newer
>>> statically linked version of ChromeOS Flashrom using the SDK, in the
>>> hope
>>> that might be able to do the job. Am I barking up the wrong tree
>>> though, or
>>> is there something else I could do?
>>
>> You are in the right spot. The fact that it failed at 6MiB is very
>> indicative of the SPI part write protection. There are, however, more
>> than one status register. There should be 3 of them:
>>
>> Read Status Register-1 (05h), Status Register-2 (35h) & Status
>> Register-3 (15h)
>>
>> Btw, I'm referencing W25Q64FW datasheet.
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
> Yeah, using --wp-status with Clapper's Flashrom tells me that the write
> protect *is* enabled, after all. But I can't see where, apart from the
> screw I took out right next to the battery, the write-protect screw
> would be? And I'm confused as to why it let me write initially if the
> write-protect wasn't enabled.
>
> This is the output I get trying to run --wp-disable:
>
> w25_set_srp0: old status: 0x94
> w25_set_srp0: new status: 0x94
> w25q_disable_writeprotect(): error=1.
> No -i argument is specified, set ignore_fmap.
> FAILED
> Setting SPI voltage to 0.000 V
> restore_power_management: Re-enabling power management.
>

I've sorted it out now - had to bridge pins 3,7 and 8 using a large 
paper-clip, as alluded to in the OSCON presentation, referenced by Barry 
Schultz. Never had to do that before, oddly.