[coreboot] anyone know what happened here?

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
I wouldn't want to. Incidentally I run (sometimes) Slackware64 here.
Currently its at release 14.2 with the usual updates, and a heck of a
lot of things in their current location.

And I noticed in that article an interesting smattering of typical
English expressions.
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Nico Huber <nico.h at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> On 22.12.2017 03:30, ron minnich wrote:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/21/ubuntu_lenovo_bios/
>
>
> A simple off-by-one. The driver in question always sent one byte
> too much which causes trouble if you accidentally write garbage to
> your flash chip's second status register. Some chips enable write
> protection that way and certain firmware doesn't work reliable any
> more in that state :D
>
> Don't ask me why it writes to the status register at all by default.
> I don't remember.
>
> Nico
>
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