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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-05-07 17:13:44 +0100
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docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html: notes about the demefactory util
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</p>
</div>
+
+ <div class="section">
+
+ <h1 id="demefactory">demefactory utility</h1>
+
+ <p>
+ This takes a factory.rom dump and disables the ME/TPM, but leaves the region intact.
+ It also sets all regions read-write.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ The ME interferes with flash read/write in flashrom, and the default descriptor
+ locks some regions. The idea is that doing this will remove all of those restrictions.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Simply run (with factory.rom in the same directory):<br/>
+ $ <b>./demefactory</b>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ It will generate a 4KiB descriptor file (only the descriptor, no GbE). Insert that into
+ a factory.rom image (NOTE: do this on a copy of it. Keep the original factory.rom stored
+ safely somewhere):<br/>
+ $ <b>dd if=demefactory_4kdescriptor.bin of=factory_nome.rom bs=1 count=4k conv=notrunc</b>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ TODO: test this.<br/>
+ TODO: lenovobios (GM45 thinkpads) still write-protects parts of the flash. Modify the assembly code
+ inside.
+ Note: the factory.rom (BIOS region) from lenovobios is in a compressed format, which you have to extract.
+ bios_extract upstream won't work, but the following was said in #coreboot on freenode IRC:
+ </p>
+<pre>
+&lt;roxfan&gt; fchmmr: try bios_extract with ffv patch <a href="http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3444/">http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3444/</a>
+&lt;roxfan&gt; or <a href="https://github.com/coreboot/bios_extract/blob/master/phoenix_extract.py">https://github.com/coreboot/bios_extract/blob/master/phoenix_extract.py</a>
+&lt;roxfan&gt; what are you looking for specifically, btw?
+
+0x74: 0x9fff03e0 PR0: Warning: 0x003e0000-0x01ffffff is read-only.
+0x84: 0x81ff81f8 PR4: Warning: 0x001f8000-0x001fffff is locked.
+</pre>
+
+ <p>
+ Use-case: a factory.rom image modified in this way would theoretically have no
+ flash protections whatsoever, making it easy to quickly switch between factory/libreboot
+ in software, without ever having to disassemble and re-flash externally unless you brick
+ the device.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ demefactory is part of the ich9deblob src, found at <i>resources/utilities/ich9deblob/</i>
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
<div class="section">