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authorPatrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org>2018-08-04 10:04:45 +0200
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Documentation: Add basic flashing tutorial for Lenovo
* Add basic flashing tutorial ** Describe internal and external flashing ** Describe flash supply diode protection ** Gives general advices on flashing ** Describe how to use flashrom --ifd * Describe basic flashing on Lenovo T4xx devices ** Describe how to disassemble and access the flash IC on T4xx ** Describe flash layout on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge series. Change-Id: Ia833e27f4e7d89ee32be9bed21a0c021839facec Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27852 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/index.md b/Documentation/mainboard/index.md
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--- a/Documentation/mainboard/index.md
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@@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ This section contains documentation about coreboot on specific mainboards.
- [Compaq 8200 Elite SFF](hp/compaq_8200_sff.md)
+## Lenovo
+
+- [T4xx common](lenovo/t4xx_series.md)
+
+### Sandy Bridge series
+
+- [T420](lenovo/t420.md)
+- [T420 / T520 / X220 / T420s / W520 common](lenovo/xx20_series.md)
+
+### Ivy Bridge series
+
+- [T430](lenovo/t430.md)
+- [T430 / T530 / X230 / W530 common](lenovo/xx30_series.md)
+
## SiFive
- [SiFive HiFive Unleashed](sifive/hifive-unleashed.md)
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+ </text>
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+ </text>
+ </g>
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+ </text>
+ </g>
+ <g>
+ <rect style="fill: #ffffff" x="307.934" y="-31.6442" width="49.1438" height="85.7161"/>
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diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t420.md b/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t420.md
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+++ b/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t420.md
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+# Lenovo T420
+
+## Flashing instructions
+You have to disassemble the whole device, as the flash IC is on the bottom
+of the mainboard.
+
+For more details have a look at [T420 / T520 / X220 / T420s / W520 common] and
+
+```eval_rst
+:doc:`../../flash_tutorial/ext_power`
+```
+
+Steps to access the flash IC are described here [T4xx series].
+
+[T4xx series]: t4xx_series.md
+[T420 / T520 / X220 / T420s / W520 common]: xx20_series.md
diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t430.md b/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t430.md
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+# Lenovo T430
+
+## Flashing instructions
+You have to disassemble the whole device, as the flash ICs are on the bottom
+of the mainboard.
+
+For more details have a look at [T430 / T530 / X230 / T430s / W530 common] and
+```eval_rst
+:doc:`../../flash_tutorial/ext_power`
+```
+
+Steps to access the flash IC are described here [T4xx series].
+
+[T4xx series]: t4xx_series.md
+[T430 / T530 / X230 / T430s / W530 common]: xx30_series.md
diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t4xx_series.md b/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/t4xx_series.md
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+# Lenovo T4xx series disassembly instructions
+
+A skilled engineer takes around 40 minutes to disassemble, flash and reassemble
+the whole device.
+
+# Steps to access the flash IC:
+
+* Unplug the main battery
+* Remove the harddisk, CDROM, ExpressCard, SIM-card, SDcard, SmartCard, ...
+* Open the bottom flap and remove the keyboard screw
+* Remove the keyboard
+* Remove the screen
+* Remove the top enclosure
+* Remove the CMOS battery
+* Remove the speakers
+* Remove WWAN and WIFI card
+* Remove the CPU fan
+* Unplug the power cable
+* Remove the bottom enclosure
+* Flip the mainboard and remove the main frame
diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/xx20_series.md b/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/xx20_series.md
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+# Lenovo Sandy Bridge series
+
+## Flashing coreboot
+```eval_rst
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Type | Value |
++=====================+====================+
+| Socketed flash | no |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Size | 8 MiB |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| In circuit flashing | Yes |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Package | SOIC-8 |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Write protection | No |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Dual BIOS feature | No |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Internal flashing | Yes |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+```
+
+## Installation instructions
+* Update the EC firmware, as there's no support for EC updates in coreboot.
+* Do **NOT** accidently swap pins or power on the board while a SPI flasher
+ is connected. It will destroy your device.
+* It's recommended to only flash the BIOS region. In that case you don't
+ need to extract BLOBs from vendor firmware.
+ If you want to flash the whole chip, you need BLOBs when building
+ coreboot.
+* The shipped *Flash layout* allocates 3MiB to the BIOS region, which is the space
+ usable by coreboot.
+* ROM chip size should be set to 8MiB.
+
+```eval_rst
+Please also have a look at :doc:`../../flash_tutorial/index`.
+```
+
+## Flash layout
+There's one 8MiB flash which contains IFD, GBE, ME and BIOS regions.
+On Lenovo's UEFI the EC firmware update is placed at the start of the BIOS
+region. The update is then written into the EC once.
+
+![][fl]
+
+[fl]: flashlayout_xx20.svg
+
diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/xx30_series.md b/Documentation/mainboard/lenovo/xx30_series.md
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+# Lenovo Ivy Bridge series
+
+## Flashing coreboot
+```eval_rst
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| Type | Value |
++=====================+================================+
+| Socketed flash | no |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| Size | 8 MiB + 4MiB |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| In circuit flashing | Yes |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| Package | SOIC-8 |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| Write protection | No |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| Dual BIOS feature | No |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+| Internal flashing | Yes |
++---------------------+--------------------------------+
+```
+
+## Installation instructions
+* Update the EC firmware, as there's no support for EC updates in coreboot.
+* Do **NOT** accidently swap pins or power on the board while a SPI flasher
+ is connected. It will permanently brick your device.
+* It's recommended to only flash the BIOS region. In that case you don't
+ need to extract BLOBs from vendor firmware.
+ If you want to flash the whole chip, you need BLOBs when building
+ coreboot.
+* The *Flash layout* shows that by default 7MiB of space are available for
+ the use with coreboot.
+* In that case you only want to use a part of the BIOS region that must not
+ exceed 4MiB in size, which means CONFIG_CBFS_SIZE must be smaller than 4MiB.
+* ROM chip size should be set to 12MiB.
+
+```eval_rst
+Please also have a look at :doc:`../../flash_tutorial/index`.
+```
+
+## Splitting the coreboot.rom
+
+To split the coreboot.rom into two images (one for the 8MiB and one for the
+4 MiB flash IC), run the following commands:
+
+```bash
+dd of=top.rom bs=1M if=build/coreboot.rom skip=8
+dd of=bottom.rom bs=1M if=build/coreboot.rom count=8
+```
+
+That gives one ROM for each flash IC, where *top.rom* is the upper part of the
+flash image, that resides on the 4 MiB flash and *bottom.rom* is the lower part
+of the flash image, that resides on the 8 MiB flash.
+
+## Dumping a full ROM
+
+If you flash externally you need to read both flash chips to get two images
+(one for the 8MiB and one for the 4 MiB flash IC), and then run the following
+command to concatenate the files:
+
+```bash
+cat bottom.rom top.rom > firmware.rom
+```
+
+## Flash layout
+There's one 8MiB and one 4 MiB flash which contains IFD, GBE, ME and
+BIOS region. These two flash ICs appear as a single 12MiB when flashing
+internally.
+On Lenovo's UEFI the EC firmware update is placed at the start of the BIOS
+region. The update is then written into the EC once.
+
+![][fl]
+
+[fl]: flashlayout_xx30.svg
+