Have received an excellent reply from Mika Westerberg (thank you!). One with a suggestion regarding 'GigaDevice' flash chips, and one regarding certain 'Winbond' flash chips.
Is somebody with access or one of more of these machine(s) able to provide insight into what flash parts are in their machine? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734147 Title: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs