From 4ecc6bb0fbfad9825844789d98fb15f7fde12987 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Wunsch Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:32:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS items for my recent changes. git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/avrdude/trunk/avrdude@1037 81a1dc3b-b13d-400b-aceb-764788c761c2 --- NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 14619f3e..5040a9dd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,22 @@ Current: * New programmers supported: * Bugfixes + - bug #34027: avrdude AT90S1200 Problem + - bug #34518: loading intel hex files > 64k using record-type 4 + + * Keep track of input file contents + + Memory segments are being tracked to remember whether they've + been actually read from a file. Only segments that came from a + file are being programmed into the device, or considered for + verification. This drastically improves handling speed for + sparse files (e.g. files that have a second bootloader segment), + and it ensures the device contents is actually compared for + everything mentioned in the file (even in case the file has + large 0xFF blocks). + + * The EEPROM contents for the cyclecounter is only read when + explicitly requested by a -y or -Y option. Version 5.11: