Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
flashrom -c MX25L8005 -w g33ds3r.f7h
That's interesting. This command does write to the chip without erasing first, so the image you now have in ROM is supposed to be a mixture of the old and new BIOS.
The ichspi driver erases a block prior to writing it, as all the non-spi drivers do. The only behavior that would possibly make sense from a user perspective.
Stefan