[flashrom] FAILED: Lenovo X1 (2015)

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:24:59 -0800
Rui Paulo <rpaulo at me.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 13:08 +0300, Антон Кочков wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Mainstream flashrom currently not yet merged patches, adding support
> > of reading layout. Because ME region usually not readable not from ME
> > itself,
> > it should be skipped, so using layout file, in your case:
> > # flashrom layout v2
> > 0x00000000:0x00000fff descr
> > 0x00500000:0x00ffffff BIOS
> > 0x00003000:0x004fffff ME
> > 0x00001000:0x00002fff GbE
> > 
> > And using flashrom with my patches should help:
> > https://github.com/XVilka/flashrom/tree/layout_descriptor
> > 
> > Some of the patches are still 'dirty' but should work - I've checked
> > them on a bunch of hardware.
> > you need to run it like:
> > 
> > flashrom -V -p internal -l this_file.layout -i BIOS -r bios_dump.bin
> > 
> 
> I got:
> 
> Layout files are currently supported for write operations only.
> 
> I thought you mean the read operation would work.

Not out of the box, but with the patches in the branch mentioned by
Anton layout files should work with all kinds of operations.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner