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In this wiki pages I document/write how I installed coreboot on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430.

This is a morph between a guide and documentation, when you read it, you know how to do it and get quite some extra infos I collected while doing so. Big thanks to jn, TobiX (https://github.com/TobiX) and the rest of @CCCAC for helping me out with giving a hella lotta info, experience, (hardware-)resources, strong nerves and a shitload of Club Mate.

The Thinkpad T430 uses two BIOS Chips, which are summarized to use one 12MB storage pool together. The first chip is a 4MB MX25L3205D and the second chip is a 8MB MX25L6405D or protocol-compatible chip. In my case the second chip was a [WIP], which is also documented on the github repo Coreboot-ThinkPads who created a guide for a whitelist removal for the T430 and a guide on how to flash the BIOS chips of the ThinkPad T/X60 and the Macbook 2,1 that is compatible to the T430 and it's BIOS chips too since it also has SOIC8 chips.

Thanks at this point to bibanon for these guides!!

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER:

Your warranty is now void. I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards/harddrives/hardware in general, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because anything related to this guide failed. Please do some research if you have any concerns about any procedure steps included in this guide before following it blindly! YOU are choosing to make these modifications and when you mess up your device it is not my fault!