RE: [avrdude-dev] Support for Futurlec AVR development boards

[Gianmario.Scotti]

Hello Jan,


thanks for your reply. Look, before you make that patch, allow me to 
investigate the issue a bit more. There's something else that cought my 
attention.

Unless, of course, you have this immediate creative urge that needs to be 
satisfied ;o)


cheers and talk to you later


mario

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jan-Hinnerk Reichert 
> [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 28 January, 2004 21:03
> To: Brian Dean; Scotti Gianmario (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Support for Futurlec AVR development boards
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 16:20, Brian Dean wrote:
> > Hi Gianmario,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:50:04PM +0200, 
> address@hidden 
> wrote:
> > > I have added an entry to avrdude.conf, so that the cheap yet very
> > > good futurlec.com development boards should be supported.
> > > I have tested it with the 90S8535 development board:
> > > http://www.futurlec.com/AT8535DevBoard.shtml
> > >
> > > but the 2313
> > > http://www.futurlec.com/ATDevBoard.shtml
> > > should work as well.
> >
> > I've added this definition to the config file so it should be in
> > CVS now.
> >
> > > One problem I noticed: AVRdude seems to leave MOSI low, even when
> > > it finds it high. That's really strange, as AVRdude is supposed
> > > to leave the port as it has found it - that's supposedly the
> > > default behaviour.
> >
> > We'll have to look into this.
> 
> I have spend some time on it last night and found nothing.
> 
> However, the I just realized how simple this one is ;-)
> The "futurlec" uses STROBE as MOSI and we only save and restore 
> PPIDATA, not PPICTRL ;-(
> 
> I will do a patch right away. This patch will also remove the save() 
> and restore() functions.
> 
> However, according to the documentation of the old TL16C452 the 
> STROBE-pin is an I/O-pin. Technically it is an open-drain output. So 
> if STROBE is high (from the PC-point-of-view), we don't read high, 
> but the value on the pin, AFAIK.
> 
> /Jan-Hinnerk
> 
>