Console driven flashrom write progress sometimes stay at 0% on internal firmware upgrade

[tlaurion]

On the second x230 i had a issue where flashrom inside heads when saving the changed configuration stayed endless at 0%. Because of my experience how long this in general take to flash it, i knew after 10 minutes, that it have to have finished if it even started. After force turning it off, spi write protection in the OS was disabled.

Originally posted by @fhvyhjriur in https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/issues/1657#issuecomment-2094802719

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We would gladly get rid of this console based progress bar if flashrom was finally integrating the --progress bar natively.

I checked recently and even flashrom 1.3.0 doesn't yet support it back....

[tlaurion]

@fhvyhjriur a little bit more of context would be appreciated. From which version of the firmware were you coming from?