Re: [flashrom] FYI: flashrom output for Altera EPCQ16

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:21:54 +0000
"Ma, Peter"  wrote:
> I understand the not wanting to allow casual users to not accidentally mis-program their BIOS.  But it does make flashrom not very useful for non-BIOS uses -- like programming FPGA bitstreams, etc.

One more thing regarding that: the way to go in that case at least for
now is to pad the payload data with 0xFF to reach the flash chip size
(either in front or back of the payload depending on the application's
need).
Cf. https://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2013-October/011828.html