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<p>Hi Naveed,</p>
<p>It's probably the MRC cache or something like that, which IIRC
you can disable. Whether there is also something else writing to
the chip from coreboot I'm not 100% but others will chime in on
that, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Kind Regards,</p>
<p>John.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/02/17 08:15, Naveed Ghori wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Does Coreboot write to the flash chip it
resides on? Can this be disabled?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Verify of the SPI bios chip fails once the
unit has booted up at least once.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Naveed<o:p></o:p></p>
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