Re: [avrdude-dev] [patch #4020] Avrdude Safemode upgrade

[Brian Dean]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:13:17AM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> Also, regarding the check whether safemode actually works or not,
> please see also Marthin Thomas' implementation.  He told me that
> he's checking the ID byte, and only trusts the programmer at all if
> the ID turns out to start with 0x1E.  (Or something to that avail --
> if you've got troubles contacting him, tell me so.)

This is a good idea, too.

> IMHO even better would be to require the ID matching the selected
> chip though (unless -F is supplied).  This requires adding the chip
> IDs to avrdude.conf, but we need to do this really soon anyway.  The

OK - but I'm not sure we have time to get this in before 5.0.  Maybe
this can go in for 5.1?  I expect that we will probably want to do a
5.1 a few months after 5.0 and perhaps we can target that follow-up
release for this feature.

-Brian
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Brian Dean
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