Board:apple/macbook21
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Hardware
Status
Tested on MacBook2,1 (Mid 2007) 2.0GHz. Might work as well, but not tested on MacBook2,1 (Late 2006) and MacBook1,1 possibly with small code modifications.
Proprietary Components
Code
Flashing
Is easy with the vendor BIOS version MB21.00A5.B07 (EFI 1.1) installed.
Identify Flash The Chip
Make sure flashrom can identify the flash chip:
# flashrom --verbose --programmer internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick >flashrom_info.log
The output should involve:
... DMI string system-manufacturer: "Apple Inc." DMI string system-product-name: "MacBook2,1" DMI string system-version: "1.0" DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Apple Inc." DMI string baseboard-product-name: "Mac-F4208CAA" DMI string baseboard-version: "PVT" DMI string chassis-type: "Notebook" Laptop detected via DMI. Found chipset "Intel ICH7M" with PCI ID 8086:27b9. Enabling flash write... ... Probing for SST SST25VF016B, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xbf, id2 0x2541 Found SST flash chip "SST25VF016B" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000. Chip status register is 0x1c. Chip status register: Block Protect Write Disable (BPL) is not set Chip status register: Auto Address Increment Programming (AAI) is not set Chip status register: Block Protect 3 (BP3) is not set Chip status register: Block Protect 2 (BP2) is set Chip status register: Block Protect 1 (BP1) is set Chip status register: Block Protect 0 (BP0) is set Chip status register: Write Enable Latch (WEL) is not set Chip status register: Write In Progress (WIP/BUSY) is not set Resulting block protection : all ... Found SST flash chip "SST25VF016B" (2048 kB, SPI). No operations were specified. ...