[flashrom] [coreboot] New laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad X230 tablet, with dumps to go with it

[Keith Hui]

Thanks Idwer for your response.

I downloaded most public datasheets available for the CPU and the PCH
(it was called 7 Series).

At this point I'm mostly interested in just identifying the flash chip
without disassembling the laptop, although I'm ready for that if
necessary.

However, I do need to find a USB-based chip programmer that can do
parallel, FWH and SPI. I still have to get a spare SPI flash chip and
port coreboot to my Asus AMD board. For some reason I killed by
home-built Willem PCB3B trying to convert it to PCB4-something to use
newer version of its software.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com> wrote:
> CC: flashrom at flashrom.org
>
> 2012/9/15 Keith Hui <buurin at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm back. With a new laptop.
>>
>> I'm now rocking a Lenovo x230 tablet, dual-booting Windows 7 and
>> Fuduntu, both 64-bit. Knowing the last time I contributed to coreboot
>> it was the good old 440BX when life was much simpler, it could be a
>> while before I can get up to speed again, so I'll for now just put
>> forth the obligatory lspci/superiotool dump to give any interested
>> parties a heads-up of what support needs to be programmed for.
>>
>> Another interesting thing is it does UEFI.
>>
>> Below is output of flashrom 0.9.6.1. I cannot get it to identify the
>> flash chip. lspci and superiotool dumps are attached.
>
> This thread mentions that it runs QM77:
> http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/X230-Tablet-Chipset/td-p/856103
>
>>
>> # /usr/src/flashrom-0.9.6.1/flashrom -V -p internal
>> flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1564 on Linux 3.4.9-1.fu2012.x86_64 (x86_64)
>> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>>
>> flashrom was built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat
>> 4.6.3-2), little endian
>> Command line (3 args): /usr/src/flashrom-0.9.6.1/flashrom -V -p internal
>> Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 3243M loops
>> per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 119 us, 1000 myus = 1026 us,
>> 10000 myus = 10097 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK.
>> Initializing internal programmer
>> No coreboot table found.
>> DMI string system-manufacturer: "LENOVO"
>> DMI string system-product-name: "3434CTO"
>> DMI string system-version: "ThinkPad X230 Tablet"
>> DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "LENOVO"
>> DMI string baseboard-product-name: "3434CTO"
>> DMI string baseboard-version: "Not Available"
>> DMI string chassis-type: "Notebook"
>> Laptop detected via DMI.
>> W836xx enter config mode worked or we were already in config mode.
>> W836xx leave config mode had no effect.
>> Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20 ID: 00.
>> Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to
>> flashrom at flashrom.org with W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V
>> as the subject to help us finish support for your Super I/O. Thanks.
>> ========================================================================
>> WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop.
>> Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we
>> recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller
>> (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.
>> See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
>
> Also, see the "Laptops" section in flashrom's man page.
>
>>
>> If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
>> and write may brick your laptop.
>> Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
>> failure and sudden poweroff.
>> You have been warned.
>> ========================================================================
>> Aborting.
>> Error: Programmer initialization failed.
>
> You'll want to do a little investigation on which external programmer
> [1] suits your needs.
>
> [1] http://flashrom.org/Supported_programmers