AVR-Chat

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:40 -0400, Brian Dean wrote:

>   * New devices supported:
> 
>       - AT90CAN128 - ATmega329x/649x - ATmega164/324/644  - AT90PWM2/3
>       - ATmega164/324/644 - ATmega329x/649x - ATtiny25/45/85

  May I offer a friendly suggestion?

  If you were to document (I haven't read the docs, perhaps you have
already done this?) the format of the data needed to give AVR Dude the
ability to work with specific devices, you could work in a fashion more
in keeping with the open source philosophy, e.g., as new devices are
introduced by Atmel, those who need the ability to work with them could
develop the apriopriate configuration files, and then submnit them to
you for inclusion in the project, as well as making the availabnell much
mor equickly than waiting until the project members have the opportunity
to build the configurations and prepare a new release.

   As a further (and perhaps not as welcome a suggestion) idea, you
could make the entire processor interface configurable, thereby making
it possible for users of other processor families to make use of your
excellent work.  Atmel, as we all know, provides processors other than
AVRs, and much as I hate to say it, PIC programmers coulod certainly
benefit from the ability to use your tool.  Let us not forget the
Freescale, Analog Devices, Philips, Topshiba, Zilog, Intel and the many,
many other embedded processor families that are out there, as well.

   And, yes, I would be more than willing to participate in the
programming effort for such a modification to the AVR Dude tool.

Tom