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  1. Thinkpad X220 - Shrink the ME Region

    Tue 24 January 2017
    By NRoach44

    This guide is quite out of date; it should still work but please note that me_cleaner now does some of this for you.

    Despite vaguely reading the opposite, it is possible to truncate the ME region to the last byte that me_cleaner left untouched. This (on my image …

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    Tagged as : coreboot firmware managementengine
  2. Thinkpad X220 - Coreboot and ME removal

    Sun 11 December 2016
    By NRoach44

    Module preparation

    See https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/11/13/coreboot-on-the-thinkpad-x220-with-a-raspberry-pi/

    1. Setup a RPi
    2. Build flashrom on it
    3. Connect RPi to BIOS chip
    4. Dump Firmware off chip
      1. Dump multiple times until you have multiple files with the same hashes
    5. Copy to workstation
    6. Use ifdtool (from the coreboot sources) to modify …
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    Tagged as : coreboot firmware managementengine

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