-sh-3.00# ./bin/flashrom -E 
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH4/ICH4-L", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000.
Erasing flash chip.
-sh-3.00# ./bin/flashrom -r empty.rom
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH4/ICH4-L", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000.
Reading Flash...done
-sh-3.00# hexdump -C empty.rom 
00000000  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
*
00100000
-sh-3.00#