As Eric Weddington wrote: > > Any idea if AVRDUDE would work with VISTA? ...
> The issues with vista that I am aware of have to do with > spawning/execing a new process. That probably means avarice is at risk. But then, it depends on Cygwin on this, so as soon as Cygwin could emulate it, it might work. > However I don't know how it would work with any of the hardware > issues like parallel port or serial port. Hopefully that hasn't > changed much, but y'never know. For the parallel port access, it basically depends on whether the "giveio" hack would still work on it: it elevates the privileges of any task opening that driver so they are eligible to perform direct port IO (IN/OUT). For sure, you wouldn't be able to watch one of those very valuable Holywood Schinkens while giveio.sys is active... Of course, if Windows Vista finally saw the light, and provided a driver to access the parallel port concurrently with the print spooler for non-printing jobs, *that* would be great: avrdude could then be made work without that giveio hack, by scheduling all handling of the parallel port to where it belongs to: into the operating system. That takes a microsecond longer to accomplish, but avoids all the potential security holes of a process performing random port IO by itself. Basically, that's the way avrdude works on all Unices where parallel port IO is supported (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD). Each of them ships with a native OS driver supporting bit-banging the parallel port. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
