[coreboot] Berlin Meeting 21. Sep Thursday @afra_berlin

[Martin Kepplinger]

Am 19.09.2017 22:41 schrieb Taiidan at gmx.com:
> On 09/19/2017 01:20 PM, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>> What I want to add is:
>> 
>> * This was a git checkout in June this year.
>> 
>> * I flashed a coreboot image (I can't remember what config) fine, and
>> used the laptop while everything (shutdown, suspend, reboot) worked.
>> Maybe the config is irrelevant, whatever.
>> 
>> * the machine didn't die "right after" or "during" flashrom-flashing. 
>> It
>> ran fine for a while. I can't remember if it suspended to and resumed
>> from RAM too, or even shutdown or reboot worked. IIRC after shutting
>> down it died. I guess the first shutdown after flashing, but I'm 
>> really
>> not sure at all.
>> 
>> * I had upgraded the EC and BIOS to the latest Lenovo version before
>> starting with coreboot.
>> 
> To be clear did you use a clip flash or did you flash a running 
> machine?
> 
> I always do a clip flash on my first flash of every board, I can't
> understand why someone wouldn't given you need to for a me_clean and
> it is dangerous to do a flash without rescue equipment - although your
> issue is much different and way scarier D: D: D:

The first (few) coreboot flash was a clip flash. I flashed from a 
running system
too, using flashrom, before the laptop died.

> 
> Have you tried updating the EC externally or swapping the chip/FRU
> board that contains it? I can't believe it is truly dead and I imagine
> it is EC related.

Nope. I didn't solder anything nor bought any replacement. Now when I 
think
about it, what I didn't try is to run the Lenovo BIOS upgrade from their 
live CD...