Installing classic keyboard into X230 with EC firmware mod

[hamish]

You can add the T530 to the list of "verified keyboard swap works" machines.

Thanks, I've marked that.

A couple of function keys don't do exactly what the table says they should:

Fn+F6 (Camera/Audio) gives me the message, ...

Fn+F8 (Mouse Switch) does nothing as far as I can tell.

Both these keys are handled by software on the operating system side, so they will depend on what you have installed. I verified that the raw keysyms generated by these keys were the same on a patched xx30 as they generated on an xx20 , but if the Lenovo software 'knows' what keys exist (and dont exist) on the current model, then it might not cope with them.

[hamish]

Will I be able to update the BIOS (for security reasons) without losing the patch? More specifically, if the EC firmware version wasn't updated, will it still be updated during the update process of the BIOS/ UEFI?

If the EC version number does not change, then the standard bios flash tool should not overwrite it. However, if you find that it has, you can always reuse the thinkpad-ec patch to fix it again.