Also changed usbdev, usbsn, usbvendor and usbproduct components from
PROGRAMMER structure to be cached string pointers rather than fixed-size
arrays. These will be initialised by pgm_new() with a pointer to nul;
Introduced -p <part>/A, which prints what -p <part>/S used to print, ie, all
components of the part structures including the default ones. Now -p <part>/S
prints the expanded part structure without use of parent and without printing
default values. This functionality is new and predominantly needed for
checking specific avrdude.conf entries, eg, avrdude -p*/St | grep pollindex
The option -p <part>/s continues to print a short entry of `avrdude.conf`
using its parent if so defined:
$ avrdude -p m328p/s
part parent "m328"
desc = "ATmega328P";
id = "m328p";
signature = 0x1e 0x95 0x0f;
;
This commit checks -U update requests for
- Typos in memory names
- Whether the files can be written or read
- Automatic format detection if necessary
before opening the programmer. This to reduce the chances of the
programming failing midway through.
Minor additional changes:
- Give strerror() system info when files are not read/writeable
- Lift the auto detection message from MSG_INFO to MSG_NOTICE
- Provide fileio_fmt_autodetect() in the AVRDUDE library
- Rename fmtstr() in the AVRDUDE library to fileio_fmtstr() to
avoid name clashes when an application links with it
Example:
$ avrdude -U - -U typo:r:.:h -U eeprom:w:testin:r -p ... -c ...
avrdude: can't auto detect file format for stdin/out, specify explicitly
avrdude: unknown memory type typo
avrdude: file . is not writeable (not a regular or character file?)
avrdude: file testin is not readable. No such file or directory
The check for typos in -U memory names against a list of known memory names
now happens after the config files have been read, so newly declared memory
names can be considered. This commit also weakens the check against existence
of a known memory: it is now sufficent for a name to pass when it could be
the initial string of any known memory of any part. Any -U memory that cannot
possibly be matched up with a known memory is considered a typo and leads to
an exit before the programmer is opened.
This to protect users from typos that leave a device partially programmed.
When every -U memory name might be matching one of the known memories, the
programming is attempted. If the part to be programmed turns out not to have
a particular -U memory, AVRDUDE warns the user and skips this -U update.
This to support unifying interfaces that call AVRDUDE with potentially more
memories than the actual part has (eg, efuse on ATmega8).
$ avrdude -qp m8 -c ... -U efuse:w:0xff:m && echo OK
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: skipping -U efuse:... as memory not defined for part ATmega8
avrdude done. Thank you.
OK
Counting the number of bytes written to a memory and/or verified is not
trivial owing to potential holes in the input file and to potential trailing
0xff bytes in flash memory that are not written per default (but see -A). The
new function memstats(), which is best called just after an input file has
been read into mem->buf/mem->tags, computes the right number of bytes written
and allows easy computation of the number of bytes verified.
This commit also changes the strategy for the default verification after
writing to a chip memory, so that the input file only needs reading once thus
enabling successful verification of stdin input files.
Other, minor changes:
- Improving the grammar of AVRDUDE output, eg, 1 byte written instead of
1 bytes written
- Better description of the input file structure in terms of its sections,
the interval it spans, the number of pages, the number of padding bytes
in pages, and the number of actually cut off trailing 0xff bytes for flash
- Printing <stdin> or <stdout> instead of - in the -U routines
- Option -V no longer needs to be specified before option -U in order to work
As an aside this commit also provides useful helper functions for printing
plural(), inname(), outname() and interval() all of which return strings fit
for printing.
$ avrdude -qp ATmega2560 -c usbtiny -U blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9801 (probably m2560)
avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: input file blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: reading input file blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex for flash
with 1346 bytes in 4 sections within [0, 0x3106d]
using 7 pages and 446 pad bytes
avrdude: writing 1346 bytes flash ...
avrdude: 1346 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex
avrdude: 1346 bytes of flash verified
avrdude done. Thank you.
$ avrdude -qp ATmega328P -c usb-bub-ii -U sketch-ending-in-ff.hex
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: input file sketch-ending-in-ff.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: reading input file sketch-ending-in-ff.hex for flash
with 2160 bytes in 1 section within [0, 0x888]
using 17 pages and 16 pad bytes, cutting off 25 trailing 0xff bytes
avrdude: writing 2160 bytes flash ...
avrdude: 2160 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against sketch-ending-in-ff.hex
avrdude: 2185 bytes of flash verified
avrdude done. Thank you.
$ echo "Hello, world..." | avrdude -qp ATmega328P -c ... -U eeprom:w:-:r
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: reading input file <stdin> for eeprom
avrdude: writing 16 bytes eeprom ...
avrdude: 16 bytes of eeprom written
avrdude: verifying eeprom memory against <stdin>
avrdude: 16 bytes of eeprom verified
avrdude done. Thank you.
For paged read/write early AVRDUDE implementations of the STK500 v1 protocol
communicated a word address (below a_div=2) or byte address (a_div=1) based
on the following code irrespective of which memories were used:
if(m->op[AVR_OP_LOADPAGE_LO] || m->op[AVR_OP_READ_LO])
a_div = 2;
else
a_div = 1;
This turned out to be a bug: it really should have been a_div=2 for flash and
a_div=1 for eeprom. At the time presumably no one noted because Atmel was at
the cusp of replacing their FW 1.x with FW 2 (and the STK500 v2 protocol).
It seems that the world (optiboot, Arduino as ISP, ...) has compensated for
the bug by assuming AVRDUDE sends *all* eeprom addresses as word addresses.
Actually these programmers overcompensated for the bug because for six out of
the 146 known SPI programmable parts with eeprom and page size > 1, AVRDUDE
would still send the eeprom addresses as byte addresses (ATmega8 ATmega8A
ATmega64 ATmega64A ATmega128 ATmega128A) owing to above code.
It makes no sense to correct the bug now seeing that virtually no one uses
the old 2005 STK 500 v1 firmware. This commit now follows optiboot, Arduino
as ISP and other projects, and simply sends all addresses for paged read or
write as word addresses. There are no longer (little known) exceptions for
ATmega8 et al that surprised some optiboot etc users.
The checks used to be in update.c, but as they are related to
the intended file operation, they are better placed in fileio.c.
The checks affected are to refuse 'm' on output (file write),
and 'd', 'h', 'o', and 'b' formats on input (file read).
The file format specifiers 'h', 'd', 'o', and 'b' are only valid for
outputting data. Reject them with a proper error message when
attempting to use them for input.
Stefan Rueger
MCUdude
Joerg Wunsch