Comment 200 for bug 1734147

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

Register map documentation for the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) in recent Intels begins on page 5626

  https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/atom-z8000-datasheet-vol-2.pdf

HSFSTS (Hardware Sequencer Status) + HSFCTL (Hardware Sequencer Control) are covered on the following pages. The 'intel-spi' driver accesses both of these together, treating them as a single 32-bit register (HSFSTS_CTL).

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PS. For those watching this bug, and wondering about what whatelse is going on in the background. Yes there is, eg. per #ubuntu-devel yesterday, today should be a visit to hardware manufacture (ODM), to try out some suggestions received via Intel:

  https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/12/20/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t16:38