Hi all,<br>I would like to see the following feature added to flashrom:<br><a href="https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom/issues/185" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom/issues/185</a><br><br><div>If someone implemented it, would the idea (at least) be accepted?</div><div>Is anyone interested in implementing it and claiming the $100 bounty?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Text of the issue, for people too lazy to click:</div><div><br></div><div><p>Some chips require certain bits (and similar features) be set before 
the hardware write-protect pins can be used. Flashrom doesn't currently 
support setting these bits, which makes it impossible to e.g hardware 
write-protect a BIOS chip after flashing Coreboot. I would like to see 
Flashrom add support for this.</p><p><br></p>
<p>Attached is a patch which was written by someone else (they can 
identify themselves if they like) to toggle the relevant bits for a 
particular flash chip, each time flashrom is run, and tell the user 
what's going on.</p><p><br></p>
<p>Your task, if you want to claim the bounty, is to:</p>
<ol><li>Add some UI sugar so that the user can choose to set the appropriate
 bits (or not), and any other &quot;features&quot; needed to enable hardware 
write-protect, via the command line</li><li>Ensure the necessary bits and features can be set for a specified 
set of chips (see below), so Flashrom supports hardware write protect 
for at least all of the listed chips, and</li><li>Get your patch accepted and merged (it may be wise to first check 
with the maintainers that they are willing to add this feature) using <a href="https://www.flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines#Patch_submission" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gerrit or the mailing list as per the official process</a></li></ol>
<p>If $100 isn't enough to make this attractive, I am open to increasing
 the bounty. I am also happy to escrow it if need be. Payment will be in
 Bitcoin.</p></div>