Hello John,
i am writing to you because of your previous work on VIA-based boards. I have refined flashrom's handling of all VIA VX-family chipsets in a new patch. If you still have access to some VIA systems could you please apply the patch[1] and at least probe for a chip? Be aware that we require the -p internal option now to select the internal programmer (there is no implicit default programmer set at compilation time any more).
[1]: http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3695/