* Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se [080627 17:48]:
- drop erroneous "unknown flash chip" entries. They badly clash with the "multiple flash chip support" and are no longer required since it's possible to force a flash chip with Peter's last patch.
Thumbs up on this. I thought on doing this in my patch, but I wanted a flashrom mode that was completely equivalent - ie. it would scan for known vendors. But I am fine with removing this right now.
Great. This has been giving me the weirdest errors and outputs over the time, nearly rendering the tool unusable for production use.
In /dev/bios I had an extra array with { VENDOR_ID, "vendorname" } that I could use to match an unknown flash chip against a vendor.
One idea I had a long time ago was also to always print an vendor/device ID in case the probe command changed the chip's state (ie the read ID is different from the memory read before in non-spi mode)
Then we could identify the "you have a flashchip in your system, but we don't fully know it" case much better.
Stefan