On 18/03/2017, Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-03-18 at 18:00, Sam Kuper wrote: >> The page >> https://www.coreboot.org/index.php?title=Board:lenovo/x201&oldid=24709#Flashing >> says: >> >> > The flash memory in the X201 is divided into roughly 4 parts: >> > >> > - Descriptor (12K) >> > - ME firmware (5M-12K) >> > - Rewriteable flash (3M-96K) >> > - Locked bootblock (96K) >> >> I guess that "K" refers to kibibytes and that "M" refers to mebibytes. > > Correct. > >> I also guess that the values in parentheses refer to the sizes of the >> corresponding occupants of the flash memory, with the "-" symbol >> representing "minus". This was not my first guess, but is the one that >> seems to make the most sense. > > I'm not familiar with Ibex Peak's standard flash layout, but this sounds > correct. The 12-KiB "Descriptor" should contain both the Intel Flash > Descriptor and the Gigabit Ethernet Region. And the region sizes by > that math add up to 8 MiB, which sounds right.
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