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Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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#### ThinkPad X60/X60S/X60T/T60 with Lenovo BIOS {#flashrom_lenovobios}
**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!**
With the ThinkPad X60, X60S, X60T, T60, GNU Boot can be installed
without disassembling these laptops.
Here are a list of targets:
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):
* ThinkPad X60/X60S/X60T: flash the X60 ROM
* ThinkPad T60 with Intel GPU: flash the T60 ROM
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.
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
You can replace Lenovo BIOS with GNU Boot, using flashrom running on the host
CPU. However, there are some considerations.