On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:38 PM, SandShark--- via flashrom <flashrom@flashrom.org> wrote:

But v0.9.7 requires configuration first, which fails, even though it finds both the chipset and the BIOS chip. This is also under a later Debian release, if that matters.

It might. There were some kernel changes which can impact flashrom's ability to read /dev/mem: https://www.flashrom.org/FAQ#I_get_.27Can.27t_mmap_memory_using_.2Fdev.2Fmem:_Invalid_argument.27

Try out the latest sources which (hopefully) don't require you to change kernel options: https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/flashrom.git

David Hendricks (dhendrix)
Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.