[flashrom] Flashrom very slow to erase chip

[Stefan Tauner]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
anthony enos <anthonye2007 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am using Dediprog programmer and currently using 8192 kB SPI Winbond "W25Q64.W" chip. Currently my time to erase chip is in excess of 10 mins. On the programmer i can see it is working in 4 KB chunks at about 4 chunks per second. So very roughly 16 KB/s.
> 
> Is this right? Is there any way to erase a chip faster.
> 
> Any insight on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

For now I can only confirm, that it is normal that flashrom works at
the smallest possible chunks for erasing. I can not comment on the
speeds you are seeing based on facts but I *think* it should be way
faster. Which flashrom version are you using?

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner