RE: [avrdude-dev] avrdude GUI with Fuse Calculator

[Weddington, Eric]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Andreas Weber
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:02 PM
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> Subject: [avrdude-dev] avrdude GUI with Fuse Calculator
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> Hi at all,
> 
> Mark H. (http://palmavr.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fc.cgi) and I 
> discuss if 
> we should program a FLTK GUI for avrdude with Fuse bit calculator 
> (similar to his online version). The emphasis should be to 
> calculate and 
> program the fuse bits, not to up- or download the firmware.

Hi Andreas,

I also second Joerg's comment about integrating a GUI into avrdude
itself. This way is generally preferred.
 
> 
> My question is now if some facts of the case from 2005 has changed or 
> where we could get the fuse bit information NOT reading all the 
> datasheets individually. Or is it legal to write a xml converter tool 
> which extracts only the fuse settings?

No, the situation has not changed. The XML files cannot be
redistributed.

Note that a new API has been added to avr-libc that allows the user to
set the fuses within an application, and these values will go into a
separate section within the resulting ELF file. To do this, fuse data is
being added to each IO header file in avr-libc.

Eric Weddington