From 417e9e7f3db8f2f67577e7caf57812ffb1b2ddb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:42:48 +0000 Subject: docs (X200): update flashing guide --- docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/hcl') diff --git a/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html b/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html index cda9bd8b..3d72951a 100644 --- a/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html +++ b/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ other parts of coreboot on the X200 can be blob-free, so removing the ME was the last obstacle to get X200 support in libreboot (the machine can also work without the microcode blobs).

+

+ The ME is removed and disabled in libreboot by modifying the descriptor. More info about + this can be found in the ich9deblob/ich9gen source code in resources/utilities/ich9deblob/ + in libreboot, or more generally on this page. +

Or back to main X200 compatibility page (x200.html).

@@ -39,7 +44,7 @@

It is no longer necessary to use ich9deblob to generate - a deblobbed descriptor+gme image for the X200. ich9gen is a small utility within + a deblobbed descriptor+gbe image for the X200. ich9gen is a small utility within ich9deblob that can generate them from scratch, without a factory.bin dump.

@@ -52,8 +57,8 @@ Two new files will be created:

@@ -73,7 +78,9 @@

- Your X200 libreboot.rom image is now ready to be flashed on the machine. + Your X200 libreboot.rom image is now ready to be flashed on the machine. Refer back to + ../install/index.html#flashrom_x200 + for how to flash it.


@@ -84,6 +91,11 @@ This is no longer strictly necessary. Libreboot ROM images for X200 now contain the 12KiB descriptor+gbe generated from ich9gen, by default.

+ +

+ This was the tool originally used to disable the ME on X200. ich9gen now supersedes it; + ich9gen is better because it does not rely on dumping the factory.rom image (whereas, ich9deblob does). +

This is what you will use to generate the deblobbed descriptor+gbe regions for your libreboot ROM image. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2