[flashrom] WinBond Chip Support

[Nico Huber]

Hi Jordan,

On 17.04.2018 14:40, Jordan Hill wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have a Dell Inspiron 5559 Laptop which contains a Winbond 25Q128FVSQ
> Chip. I tried running flashrom natively on the laptop and got the usual EC
> warning so i stopped there. I then desoldered the SMD chip off the
> motherboard and hooked it up to a RPI and connected it through the SPI
> protocol. Flashrom then recognized it as a "Generic" flash chip and would
> not allow the data to be read as it was still unrecognized.

did you connect all input pins of the flash chip? A common error is to
leave /HOLD and /WP floating. But they need a defined state. /HOLD has
to be pulled up (towards VCC). /WP up too (might as well be down depen-
ding on the chip's configuration, but up always works).

Nico