robert@LenovoT500:~$ sudo flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
[sudo] password for robert:
flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1563 on Linux 3.5.0-19-generic (i686)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
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WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop.
Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we
recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller
(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.
See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.

If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
and write may brick your laptop.
Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
failure and sudden poweroff.
You have been warned.
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Proceeding anyway because user forced us to.
Found chipset "Intel ICH9M-E". Enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated.
FREG0: WARNING: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only.
FREG2: WARNING: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x005f5fff) is locked.
PR0: WARNING: 0x007e0000-0x01ffffff is read-only.
PR4: WARNING: 0x005f8000-0x005fffff is locked.
Please send a verbose log to flashrom@flashrom.org if this board is not listed on
http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_mainboards yet.
Writes have been disabled. You can enforce write support with the
ich_spi_force programmer option, but it will most likely harm your hardware!
If you force flashrom you will get no support if something breaks.
OK.
Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xff800000.
No operations were specified.
robert@LenovoT500:~$