After realizing that it's now been almost 2.5 years ago I released AVaRICE version 2.10, I quickly prepared a bugfix-only release 2.11.
Before, I checked in all outstanding patches except those that deal with the programming functionality. In particular, AVaRICE is now -Wall -Wextra safe for GCC 4.x, and these warnings are now enabled by default. (GCC 3.x users might want to use --disable-warnings on the configure script.) Regarding programming functionality, my opinion (which is, of course, debatable) is that I'd ultimately no longer like to maintain this inside AVaRICE, as it's a duplication of effort with the AVRDUDE project. AVRDUDE offers a more complete, unified CLI to basically all pieces of wire on earth that could potentially program an AVR device, so I think it doesn't make much sense to have a mini-version of that, with a different user interface, inside AVaRICE as well. By now, the only thing AVaRICE offers which AVRDUDE lacks is direct ELF file reading, but that has been on AVRDUDE's wishlist for long enough anyway. There's one thing, however, that I'd really like to see fixed in AVaRICE in a future version: flash downloading from inside a GDB connection (through GDB's "load") command. This is IMHO a useful feature, but right now, it's completely broken for the JTAGICEmkII, as it would require a paged programming, yet GDB has no idea of the flash page constraints, and happily feeds us load data in semi-random order. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ avarice-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avarice-user
