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| author | Sebastian 'Swift Geek' Grzywna <swiftgeek@gmail.com> | 2017-04-29 18:34:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Sebastian 'Swift Geek' Grzywna <swiftgeek@gmail.com> | 2017-04-29 19:02:00 +0200 |
| commit | c9552f78f48c3a6f0108c7bb21ee6411458708af (patch) | |
| tree | d76fb92b3f5b1aa9d9c7c9bb1b5983d989727a3f /docs/install/x200_external.md | |
| parent | 01b733fa07812bf510c3a8cd98b232111adfe360 (diff) | |
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Rectify section encouraging people to rip traces out of the mainboard
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diff --git a/docs/install/x200_external.md b/docs/install/x200_external.md index adcc473b..5f46c3d2 100644 --- a/docs/install/x200_external.md +++ b/docs/install/x200_external.md @@ -92,17 +92,11 @@ header), for SOIC-8 (clip: Pomona 5250): chip on those pins? **On the X200S and X200 Tablet the flash chip is underneath the board, -in a WSON package. The pinout is very much the same as a SOIC-8, except -you need to solder (there are no clips available).\ -The following image shows how this is done:**\ -\ -In this image, a pin header was soldered onto the WSON. Another solution -might be to de-solder the WSON-8 chip and put a SOIC-8 there instead. +in a WSON package. The pinout is very much the same as a SOIC-8, but such package makes it impossible to use testclip. +In order to enable external flashing of device, chip has to be changed to SOIC-8 one. Such procedure requires hot air station and soldering station (with "knife" K-Tip to easily solder SOIC-8).\ Check the list of SOIC-8 flash chips at -[../hardware/gm45\_remove\_me.html\#flashchips](../hardware/gm45_remove_me.md#flashchips) -but do note that these are only 4MiB (32Mb) chips. The only X200 SPI -chips with 8MiB capacity are SOIC-16. For 8MiB capacity in this case, -the X201 SOIC-8 flash chip (Macronix 25L6445E) might work. +[List of supported flash chips](https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_flash_chips)\ +25XX series SPI NOR Flash in 8/16MiB sizes will work fine with libreboot. The procedure ------------- |