[coreboot] ThinkPad X230 alternative flash chips?

[Thierry Laurion]

In fact, all the 7mb is now available.
Check that out! https://github.com/osresearch/heads/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Le ven. 14 avr. 2017 à 23:38, Thierry Laurion <thierry.laurion at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> The x230 has two rom chips. One that has 4mb that boots the system, and
> one that is 8mb that holds ME. http://osresearch.net/ planned on using
> freed space in the ME after deactivating it, but I haven't seen usage of
> that freed space yet.
>
> Le ven. 14 avr. 2017 à 21:15, Marek Behun <kabel at blackhole.sk> a écrit :
>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I have ordered two 32 MB Macronix chips, with the hope to have 64 MB of
>> space. If what you say is true, they won't work :(
>>
>> Marek
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