How to coreboot your X220 (seabios + vgabios & me cleaner)

Welp I guess I can never use the hash key for comments any more. Thanks google. #GNU/linux #Thinkpad #Coreboot

tfw no screws. (also I'm making the q/a next so... I'll answer questions below)

Cheat Sheet for x220 coreboot install.

#Get build dependencies sudo apt-get install git build-essential gnat flex bison libncurses5-dev wget zlib1g-dev #Install coreboot git clone https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot cd coreboot git submodule update --init --checkout #Mention soft disable vs strip #split rom cd coreboot/util/ifdtool make CPUS=16 ./ifdtool -x x220.rom #Install me cleaner and nueter me git clone https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.git python3 me_cleaner.py me.bin #edit commands make nconfig #set descriptor.bin bios.bin me.bin gbe.bin vgabios.bin #Comopile coreboot make crossgcc-i386 CPUS=16 make iasl CPUS=16 make CPUS=16

Rom is in coreboot/build/coreboot.rom

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/11/13/coreboot-on-the-thinkpad-x220-with-a-raspberry-pi/ -Link for the x220 flashchip pinout ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExQKOtZhLBM