On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 27.11.2009 17:43, ron minnich wrote: > > Have we crossed some boundary where we're going to need tools to > > systematically reverse engineer the EC now? Maybe we need to start > > accumulating EC knowledge on a new coreboot.org page ... I am > > realizing I don't understand them at all. > > > > coreboot.org or flashrom.org? The goals are pretty different. Each needs > EC interaction, but coreboot doesn't care about being able to flash and > usually has people who can dump the chip, while flashrom cares very much > about being able to flash and nothing else. > > I tried to explain the EC situation from a flashrom perspective: > http://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Unsupported_Laptops.2FNotebooks.2FNetbooks
Information about the EC used in thinkpads may possibly be gained from tp_smapi: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi The project has a thinkpad_ec module so they may have a method of reliably detecting the beast :-) Ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <[email protected]> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
