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| author | Michael Bacarella <michael.bacarella@gmail.com> | 2018-12-03 11:23:43 -0800 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2018-12-04 10:25:42 +0000 |
| commit | 106a0823c92593fe35150c5255d9852b9bff9c5d (patch) | |
| tree | c8a47ed084b7105435ff41add4dfa5fd410563cf /Documentation/flash_tutorial | |
| parent | be1907a513c21cc41256f023ada27a6ad1dfdde0 (diff) | |
Documentation: Clarify minor detail on preparing a layout file
The user needs to pass the original firmware image to create
a layout file, not the newly compiled coreboot image.
Signed-off-by: Michael Bacarella <michael.bacarella@gmail.com>
Change-Id: If47a88f06076da12d8da7a873c3e5ef64fc1f877
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/30024
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/flash_tutorial')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md b/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md index 1a291372a6..eb74ad07c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md +++ b/Documentation/flash_tutorial/index.md @@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ On platforms where the flash IC is shared with other components you might want to write only a part of the flash IC. On Intel for example there are IFD, ME and GBE which don't need to be updated to install coreboot. To make [flashrom] only write the *bios* region, leaving Intel ME and Intel IFD -untouched, you can use a layout file, which can be created using ifdtool +untouched, you can use a layout file, which can be created with ifdtool and a backup +of the original firmware. ```bash -ifdtool -f rom.layout coreboot.rom +ifdtool -f rom.layout backup.rom ``` and looks similar to: |