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<div>Device: Acer C720-3605 Chromebook (Haswell) with Winbond W25Q64 8MB firmware flash</div>
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<div>Description of issue --- The following behavior is observed:</div>
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<div>1. If write protect is disabled (either in hardware i.e. screw removed, or in software i.e. status.srp0 == 0 == status.srp1, or in both hardware and software) AND there is a non-null write protect range (set by status register bits BP0/BP1/BP2/TB/SEC), then upon power cycled reboot, the status registers get completely cleared (to 0x0000).</div>
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<div>2. If write protect is disabled in hardware but not in software and the write protect range is null (so status registers == 0x0080), then a power cycled reboot preserves the status registers (i.e. the value is still 0x0080 after reboot).</div>
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<div>Is the above behavior a feature or a bug?</div>
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<div>I can post logs (e.g. outputs of "flashrom --wp-status") if necessary.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>Brishchik Gupta</div>
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