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docs/novacustom.md: document v0.9.0 downgrade bug
Signed-off-by: Michał Kopeć <[email protected]>
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[DCU](https://github.com/Dasharo/dcu). You can find the instructions for both
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## Warning: Downgrading firmware
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Downgrading to v0.9.0 may trigger a bug, where the EC firwmare update feature in
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coreboot may cause an EC brick.
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To work around this issue, you **must downgrade the BIOS and the EC at the same
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time**. First, downgrade the BIOS, then, without rebooting in between, downgrade
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the EC firmware.
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## FTDI converter
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The obvious prerequisite is that you have an FTDI FT232-based USB-TTL

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