Check for failed SPI command execution in flashrom. Although SPI itself
does not have a mechanism to signal command failure, the SPI host may be
unable to send a given command over the wire due to security or hardware
limitations. The current code ignores these mechanisms completely and
simply assumes almost every command succeeds. Complain if SPI command
execution fails.

Since locked down Intel chipsets (like the one we had problems with
earlier) only allow a small subset of commands, find the common subset
of commands between the chipset and the ROM in the chip erase case. That
is accomplished by the new spi_chip_erase_60_c7() which can be used for
chips supporting both 0x60 and 0xc7 chip erase commands.

Both parts of the patch address problems seen in the real world. The
increased verbosity for the error case will help us diagnose and address
problems better.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Otherwise: Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>


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