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=== Hardware Teardown ===
=== Hardware Teardown ===
Proceeds as follows:
Proceeds as follows:
* Turn off your laptop, remove AC adapter.  
# Turn off your laptop, remove AC adapter.  
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBnEHuJLhb4 Detach the keyboard bezel assembly]. You can keep the ribbon cable connected and pivot the keyboard assembly against the lid of the laptop.
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBnEHuJLhb4 Detach the keyboard bezel assembly]. You can keep the ribbon cable connected and pivot the keyboard assembly against the lid of the laptop.
* Remove main battery conectoy and cmos battery connector.
# Remove main battery conectoy and cmos battery connector.


It would be wise to install Linux and configure SSH before flashing coreboot to your X1 Carbon. This will allow you to troubleshoot from a running system if your display does not initialize after flashing.
It would be wise to install Linux and configure SSH before flashing coreboot to your X1 Carbon. This will allow you to troubleshoot from a running system if your display does not initialize after flashing.
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Before building and flashing coreboot we need to make a copy of the existing firmware.  
Before building and flashing coreboot we need to make a copy of the existing firmware.  
=== MX25L3273E Backup ===
Connect your SOIC clip to the MX25L3273E flash chip (the left one).
Insert the CH341A flash programmer into a USB port.
Read the stock firmware twice from the 4M MX25L3273E flash chip:
flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c MX25L3273E -r x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin
flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c MX25L3273E -r x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin
Compare the two images to ensure a successful read.
sha256sum x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin  x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin
sha256sum output:
b5bc2c096d53ed15fdbfe99c41bbb7ae9311366329cc19f611ba3f743c09b8e4  x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin
b5bc2c096d53ed15fdbfe99c41bbb7ae9311366329cc19f611ba3f743c09b8e4  x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin
The hashes should match. If not, repeat the above steps. Your SOIC clip may require slight downward pressure during read and write operations. You'll need to get a feel for the clip. Some are made better than others.
Consolidate and rename your extracted firmware images (MX25L3273E)
rm x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin
mv x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios.bin
=== MX25L6406E Backup ===
Connect your SOIC clip to the MX25L6406E flash chip (the right one).
Insert the CH341A flash programmer into a USB port.
Read the stock firmware two separate times from the 8M MX25L6406E flash chip:
flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" -r x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin
flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" -r x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin
Compare the two images to ensure a successful read.
sha256sum x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin
sha256sum output:
affd1adb758e971650c81a495fff5c5cfd88a206e2da6cf81a1032835a5d52c7  x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin
affd1adb758e971650c81a495fff5c5cfd88a206e2da6cf81a1032835a5d52c7  x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin
The hashes should match. If not, repeat the above steps.
Consolidate and rename your extracted firmware images (MX25L6406E)
rm x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin
mv x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios.bin
=== 12M Virtual Flash Image ===
After successfully extracting the firmware from both flash chips combine the 4M and 8M firmware images into the full 12M virtual flash image.
cat x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios.bin x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios.bin > x1c_original_bios.bin


== Hardware Flashing ==
== Hardware Flashing ==


=== Internal Flashing ===
=== Internal Flashing ===

Revision as of 22:15, 20 May 2017

Status

Intel_Native_Raminit has it's own status page.

Thanks for your interest in the Lenovo X1 Carbon 1st gen port. The X1 Carbon 1st gen is very similar to the Lenovo X230. See Board:lenovo/x230.

Issues

  • Powered USB 2.0 port isn't powered in power-off state.
  • S3 Suspend when resuming may cause black screen when not using a VGA option rom.
  • SeaBIOS flickers when not using a VGA option rom.
  • Bluetooth fails to load firmware. Unknown if related to coreboot.
  • Keyboard backlight (fn + spacebar) has 4 modes instead of three. Two modes do not illuminate the keyboard (should be one), the remaining two modes illuminate the keyboard with low and high brightness as expected.

Tested

  • S3 (Suspend to memory)
  • S4 (Suspend to disk)
  • USB (both 2.0 and 3.0 ports)
  • ThinkPad USB 3.0 Ethernet Adapter (Device ID 17ef:7205)
  • Video (internal)
  • Sound (integrated speakers, integrated mic, external headphones)
  • WLAN (Centrino Advanced-N 6205)
  • WLAN toggle switch
  • Linux Boot / Install (SeaBIOS)
  • SD card reader (Ricoh Co Ltd PCIe SDXC/MMC Host Controller [1180:e823] (rev 07))
  • Thermal management
  • Fingerprint reader (147e:2020 Upek TouchChip Fingerprint Coprocessor)
  • Webcam
  • Trackpoint
  • Touchpad
  • Fn hotkeys
  • Physical hotkeys (power, audio mute, mic mute, volume)
  • Nvramcui as secondary payload
  • Keyboard backlight
  • Screen backlight
  • mSATA

Untested

  • Displayport
  • External display (HDMI)
  • WWAN

proprietary components status

  • CPU Microcode
  • VGA Option ROM (optional): you need it if you want graphics in SeaBIOS but most payloads should work without it (text mode or corebootfb mode)
  • ME (Management Engine) => you do not have to touch it (just leave it where it is)
  • EC (Embedded Controller) => you do not have to touch it (just leave it where it is)

Code

{{ #if: | * [{{{review_url}}} The code has been merged into coreboot master]: | * The code has been merged into coreboot master:}}

 $ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git


Please have a look at Build_HOWTO. Start compiling crossgcc right now! It will take a while. You will build coreboot itself at a later time.


Preparation

Required Tools

  • External flash programmer. A CH341A flash programmer was used for this guide. You can find these for under $10.00.
  • SOIC8 clip for externally reading and flashing. This eliminates the need for any soldering. You can find these for around $12.00.
  • Secondary system with flashrom installed.

Update BIOS

It is a good idea to make sure you're on the latest firmware from Lenovo before flashing coreboot. This guide was written using the 2.75 bios.

Hardware Teardown

Proceeds as follows:

  1. Turn off your laptop, remove AC adapter.
  2. Detach the keyboard bezel assembly. You can keep the ribbon cable connected and pivot the keyboard assembly against the lid of the laptop.
  3. Remove main battery conectoy and cmos battery connector.

It would be wise to install Linux and configure SSH before flashing coreboot to your X1 Carbon. This will allow you to troubleshoot from a running system if your display does not initialize after flashing.

Mainboard Flash Layout - MX25L3273E and MX25L6406E

The X1 Carbon 1st gen has 2 flash chips of 4M (MX25L3273E) and 8M (MX25L6406E). The flash chips are located just above the mSATA SSD. They're concatenated to one virtual flash chip of 12M which is itself subdivided in roughly in 3 parts:

  • Descriptor (12K)
  • ME firmware (5M-12K)
  • System flash (7M)

ME firmware is not readable. Vendor firmware locks the flash and so you need to flash externally until you re-flash unlocked firmware.


Lenovo Firmware Backup

Before building and flashing coreboot we need to make a copy of the existing firmware.

MX25L3273E Backup

Connect your SOIC clip to the MX25L3273E flash chip (the left one). Insert the CH341A flash programmer into a USB port. Read the stock firmware twice from the 4M MX25L3273E flash chip:

flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c MX25L3273E -r x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin
flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c MX25L3273E -r x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin

Compare the two images to ensure a successful read.

sha256sum x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin  x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin

sha256sum output:

b5bc2c096d53ed15fdbfe99c41bbb7ae9311366329cc19f611ba3f743c09b8e4  x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin 
b5bc2c096d53ed15fdbfe99c41bbb7ae9311366329cc19f611ba3f743c09b8e4  x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin

The hashes should match. If not, repeat the above steps. Your SOIC clip may require slight downward pressure during read and write operations. You'll need to get a feel for the clip. Some are made better than others.

Consolidate and rename your extracted firmware images (MX25L3273E)

rm x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_2.bin
mv x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios_1.bin x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios.bin

MX25L6406E Backup

Connect your SOIC clip to the MX25L6406E flash chip (the right one). Insert the CH341A flash programmer into a USB port. Read the stock firmware two separate times from the 8M MX25L6406E flash chip:

flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" -r x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin
flashrom -p ch341a_spi -c "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" -r x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin

Compare the two images to ensure a successful read.

sha256sum x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin

sha256sum output:

affd1adb758e971650c81a495fff5c5cfd88a206e2da6cf81a1032835a5d52c7  x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin
affd1adb758e971650c81a495fff5c5cfd88a206e2da6cf81a1032835a5d52c7  x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin

The hashes should match. If not, repeat the above steps.

Consolidate and rename your extracted firmware images (MX25L6406E)

rm x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios2.bin
mv x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios1.bin x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios.bin

12M Virtual Flash Image

After successfully extracting the firmware from both flash chips combine the 4M and 8M firmware images into the full 12M virtual flash image.

cat x1c_MX25L3273E_original_bios.bin x1c_MX25L6406E_original_bios.bin > x1c_original_bios.bin


Hardware Flashing

Internal Flashing