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ichspi.c: Check SPI Cycle In-Progress prior start HW Seq

As per EDS, SPI controller sets the HSFSTS.bit5 (SCIP) when software
sets the Flash Cycle Go (FGO) bit in the Hardware Sequencing Flash
Control register.

This bit remains set until the cycle completes on the SPI interface.
Hardware automatically sets and clears this bit. Software must initiate
the next SPI transaction when this bit is 0.

Problem Statement:
Evidencing AU failure while performing firmware update on the Alder Lake
based ChromeOS devices.

Observation:
Based on the initial understanding from the failure log/pattern, it
seems like the platform is evidencing multiple `flashrom` access from
different source, for example: `futility` accesses flashrom for erase,
write and read operation, `crossystem` uses flashrom for updating VBNV,
additionally, `set_fw_good` script also uses `crossystem` to update the
fw status.

Solution:
Without this synchronisation being implemented in flashrom, there is no
way to ensure multiple instances of flashrom performing different SPI
operations are not cancelling each other and running into below error:

Erasing and writing flash chip... Timeout error between offset
0x0061c000 and 0x0061c03f (= 0x0061c000 + 63)! FAILED!
Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.

BUG=b:215255210
TEST=Able to flash coreboot image on Alder Lake Brya variants, Tiger
Lake Volteer variants and Comet Lake Hatch variants without any failure.

Signed-off-by: Subrata Banik <subratabanik@google.com>
Change-Id: Ib9265cc20513fd00f32f8fa22e28c312903ca484
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M ichspi.c
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/flashrom refs/changes/54/61854/9

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