From c9552f78f48c3a6f0108c7bb21ee6411458708af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian 'Swift Geek' Grzywna Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 18:34:30 +0200 Subject: Rectify section encouraging people to rip traces out of the mainboard --- docs/install/x200_external.md | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') 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:**\ -![](images/x200/wson_soldered.jpg "Copyright 2014 Steve Shenton see license notice at the end of this document")\ -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 ------------- -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2