digmorepaka / thinkpad-firmware-patches

Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.
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Questions regarding compatibility table #3

Closed benbender closed 3 years ago

benbender commented 3 years ago

Hey,

two points I'm unsure:

digmorepaka commented 3 years ago

Internal flash as in the modified modules can be flashed via the stock update mechanism or using an exploit to disable flash protections. Stock ThinkPad firmwares as many others have their own flash range protections to prevent tamper on top of the PCH's IFD. These cannot be bypassed even with GPIO33.

TPM yes/no refers to the ability to use the TPM normally(for example with bitlocker). There is two primary 'non-functional' states i am aware of, MFG mode and 5 beeps. 5 beeps means the biosguard checks failed but on some machines it can still boot and operate normally, for example T430.

I will link this issue in the readme as a clarification.