More flash eeprom fun on a Thinkpad

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Jackpot.
It looks to me like a standard 8K I2C eeprom, but with an RF side as
well.
Not clear why they'd misbehave.
I'll order some samples and we can play with them.


phil at netroedge.com wrote:
> 
> I found this interesting.  A guy took apart his Thinkpad 600X (one of
> the lm-sensors vulnerable ones) and pulled out the Atmel Flash EEPROM
> to reflash it:
> 
> http://www.ja.olm.net/unlock/key_for_600x.htm
> 
> You can get the datasheet for the AT24RF08C RFID flash eeprom here:
> 
> http://www.ja.olm.net/unlock/key_for_600e.htm
> 
> Strange serial eeprom device.  It lives in 0x54-0x57.  It's not clear
> to me how the chip responds to 'quick' SMBus accesses we use during
> probing, or how it would like being driven by our eeprom module.
> 
> Anyways, note that people who have had their Thinkpad 240's killed by
> Lm_sensors get the error: 0188: Invalid RFID Serialization Area
> 
> Could we simply blacklist the 0x54-0x57 area unless the user
> explicitly 'forces' regular usage of that area?
> 
> Phil
> 
> --
> Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR
>    phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil
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