Re: [avr-chat] Introduction, and flashing bootloaders with a USBTiny programmer

[Joerg Wunsch]

Pierce Nichols <address@hidden> wrote:

> For reasons that are unclear to me, avrdude
> insists on writing all of the flash in order to put the bootloader at the
> top of the flash

You can give the SVN version of AVRDUDE a try if you want.  I
introduced memory region tracking some time ago.  Before, AVRDUDE did
not track of which areas had been actually loaded from a file and
which not, and always programmed everything (up to the highest
address).  Some programmer implementations then went ahead, and
skipped empty memory pages.

I intend to release AVRDUDE 6.0 "really soon now". ;-)

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