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		80x86 on Aug 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving from Common-Sense Knowledge About UEFI to D... Do most people have to go through all of this ceremony or is there typically a JTAG port on a motherboard that will do the trick?

rmrfstar on Aug 17, 2020 [–]

Depends on the context.

If you want direct access to the hardware, you'll typically attach IC hooks to the SPI chip itself, and read/write with flashrom. It's almost always a chunky soic-8 package.

https://libreboot.org/docs/install/c201.html#installing-libr...

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