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

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Brian Dean wrote:

> > 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?

Yes, probably.

However, for validation purposes (to see whether safemode would
actually be safe at all), we already know the second byte of the
device ID without an exhaustive list: it's 0x90 + log2(m / 1024)
with m being the devices flash ROM size.

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