[coreboot] Re: Configuration for Thinkpad T530

2019-01-23 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Please don't forget to CC the coreboot mailing list. You could determine the chip's layout by looking on it: it has a dot near CS pin. As for cable/clip and programmer, check "Flashing BIOS chip with Bus Pirate" article at dangerous prototypes forums: it has a good review of SOIC8 test clips and

[coreboot] Re: Configuration for Thinkpad T530

2019-01-23 Thread Angel Pons
Hello On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 18:11 Ivan Ivanov Please don't forget to CC the coreboot mailing list. You could > determine the chip's layout by looking on it: it has a dot near CS > pin. > Worth mentioning: this dot is not painted, it is a physical crater on the chip. The painted dots are never a

[coreboot] Re: Fallback mechanisms on x86 with C_ENVIRONMENT_BOOTBLOCK

2019-01-23 Thread Aaron Durbin via coreboot
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:21 PM Julius Werner wrote: > > FWIW, it's my opinion I think we'll need to start splitting cbfs into > smaller ones. This isn't specific to this situation, but splitting slots > into multiple cbfses (rw-a-1, rw-a-2, etc) allows one to chain/group > resources as they

[coreboot] Re: [linux-mei] intelmetool crashed mei_me driver

2019-01-23 Thread Winkler, Tomas
The tools impalements the mei state machine in the user space so it will conflict with the driver, you can try to unbind the driver if you need such functionality, Second the protocol is evolving and we are update the driver but I cannot update it in a tool I don't know about. I suggest you

[coreboot] Re: [flashrom] [LinuxBoot] FOSDEM 2019 deadline today

2019-01-23 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 17.12.2018 15:28, Arthur Heymans wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger writes: >> * FOSDEM 2-3 February 2019 >> * We have a coreboot/LinuxBoot/flashrom stand! Need people for the stand >> (2 days, 1 table). > I Live in Antwerp, so reasonably close by, so I will certainly be there > and can lend a

[coreboot] Re: Fallback mechanisms on x86 with C_ENVIRONMENT_BOOTBLOCK

2019-01-23 Thread Julius Werner
> For 1, this is attempting to protect physical attack. Obviously this > particular problem can't be solved in isolation, but it's something to think > about. But isn't this something that per-file hashing would probably make easier to protect against, not harder? I mean, right now we just hash

[coreboot] Re: [flashrom] [LinuxBoot] FOSDEM 2019 deadline today

2019-01-23 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hey everyone, just 9 days until FOSDEM in Brussels (2+3 February)! There are a couple of talks about coreboot and LinuxBoot and we have a coreboot/LinuxBoot/flashrom stand (building AW). Plus, there is a hardware enablement devroom. - Who's coming? - Are you volunteering for a shift at the

[coreboot] Re: Fallback mechanisms on x86 with C_ENVIRONMENT_BOOTBLOCK

2019-01-23 Thread Zeh, Werner
Currently with the one CBFS containing all files it is easy and simple to access every file in every stage. Wouldn't this be harder if we chose to split the CBFS into several, stand-alone CBFSes? Or, on the other hand, wouldn't we end up in duplicating CBFS files just to have them around handy?