Re: [avrdude-dev] Anybody still using the cycle counter (options -y / -Y)?

[Joerg Wunsch]

I wrote (a couple of years ago):

> The erase cycle counter, stored in the last 4 EEPROM cells of the
> device, might have been a neat idea by its time.  However, I think the
> days of its usefulness have long since been past.  Nobody really cares
> about flash wear by normal programming cycles these days (those who do
> care about it usually rewrite the flash from within the firmware
> itself), the typical flash endurance is much longer than the initial
> 1000 cycles the first AVRs have been guaranteeing some 10+ years ago.

I decided to completely remove the feature now.

Nobody ever told me they were really using it anymore, and a major
new release appears to be a good situation to just drop it.
-- 
cheers, Joerg               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

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