[coreboot] Question about internat flashing over existing coreboot payloads - x220

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Sep 12 01:29:23 CEST 2017


diffusae via coreboot wrote:
> "Once you are running coreboot any subsequent flashes can be done
> internally, however you will have to force flashrom"
> 
> https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x220
> 
> Is that really possible, without any risk? Doesn't it irritating the
> embedded controller? Can I ignore the flashrom warnings?

Yes. No (which EC do you mean? why would it be irritated? why is the
output of a random program automatically correct?). Yes.

Flashrom contains imprecise blanket statements.

Be careful, and always have a way to recover from a non-working image.


//Peter



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