From 49410eb1284b0e2fcc09956088ad55357b4923c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:01:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "install" This reverts commit 66c28373fc2a20c9d7a12e9de86f03b2c7bf6f3f. --- site/docs/install/index.md | 34 +++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/site/docs/install/index.md b/site/docs/install/index.md index 57f3fba..4c75670 100644 --- a/site/docs/install/index.md +++ b/site/docs/install/index.md @@ -291,34 +291,22 @@ example of the push pin as a proof of concept: #### ThinkPad X60/X60S/X60T/T60 with Lenovo BIOS {#flashrom_lenovobios} -With the ThinkPad X60, X60S, X60T, T60, GNU Boot can be installed -without disassembling these laptops. +**I forgot to actually add the flashrom patches in the Libreboot 20211122 +release. When you see the notes below about `_sst` and `_mx`, for now just use +the `util` archive from Libreboot 20160907. That release has a utils archive +with pre-compiled flashrom binaries, including patches binaries for Macronix +and SST flash chips on these machines. Bucts is also included, pre compiled. +They are statically linked binaries, so they should work on any distro. Use +those binaries, but with the ROM images from the Libreboot 20211122 release!** -This requires to download and run some specific software utilities on -top of a GNU/Linux distribution after having done some configuration, -and to follow the important part of the instructions very -carefully. You will be notified when this happens. - -First you need to download the right GNU Boot images for your -computer. Here's a correspondance between the computer model and the -image to download (and install later on): +Here are a list of targets: * ThinkPad X60/X60S/X60T: flash the X60 ROM * ThinkPad T60 with Intel GPU: flash the T60 ROM -Once this is done you will need to also download the specific -utilities. They should be available as part of GNU Boot release that -are more recent than gnuboot-0.1-rc3. - -The releases should contain the -bucts-flashrom-bucts-tarball-pack.tar.gz file inside an -i945-thinkpads-install directory. - -This archive can be extracted (in the gnuboot-utilities directory) -with the following command: - - tar xf bucts-flashrom-bucts-tarball-pack.tar.gz -C gnuboot-utilities - +Download and build flashrom, using the instructions +on [the Git page](../../git.md), and download the `bucts` software using the +notes on that very same page. You can replace Lenovo BIOS with GNU Boot, using flashrom running on the host CPU. However, there are some considerations.