Hey Joerg, I just wanted to say thank you for all your work on AVaRICE and
AVRDUDE. It's people like you who make open source bearable, and useable on my
Mac, for which I am ever grateful.
Keep up the great work! And if there's a place to donate to your efforts,
please let me know.
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> On Sep 22, 2015, at 12:01 , Joerg Wunsch <j...@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
> As Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
>
>> It is kind of unclear (to me) whether the new Atmel-ICE debugger
>> ([2]) is supported by AvaRICE or not.
>
> Unfortunately not (not yet).
>
>> I would get a JTAGICE3
>> instead, but it's no longer available. Plus, there is some concern
>> ([1]) that Atmel is going to release a firmware upgrade for the
>> JTAGICE3, rendering it unusable with AvaRICE?
>
> Yes, that's the case. The firmware Atmel Studio pushes onto it gets
> at JTAGICE3 very close to the way the Atmel-ICE works, i.e. they
> changed the product ID, and implemented a completely different
> protocol (based on HID - everything in Windows is a "human interface",
> isn't it?).
>
> It's not that it's completely out of the question to implement the
> stuff needed. After all, the higher-level protocol is not that much
> different from what the JTAGICE3 is using. It's the low-level
> transport that makes it different.
>
> I did implement the Atmel-ICE support in AVRDUDE, but I'm not very
> happy with the way I did it. It works under FreeBSD, it mostly
> works under Linux, it has a hard time working under Windows or OSX
> though. The better way to do it were to base it on libhidapi (rather
> than libusb), as OpenOCD does.
>
> My idea was to first switch AVRDUDE to make it use libhidapi, and
> thus avoid doing the work twice in AVaRICE. Alas, that idea has
> been sitting around in my head for one and a half year now, without
> finding a sufficiently large enough timeslot to actually materialize.
> --
> cheers, Joerg .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL
>
> http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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