As the address bit numbers in the SPI opcodes are highly systematic, they
don't really need to be specified. Each bit can therefore be described as one
of the characters 0 (always 0), 1 (always 1), x (don't care, but will be set
as 0), a (a copy of the correct bit of the byte or word address of read,
write, load, pagewrite or load extended address command of memories with more
than one byte), i (input bit for a load/write) or o (output bit from a read).
The bits therefore do not need to be individually separated.
If a string in the list of strings that describe an SPI opcode does *not*
contain a space *and* is longer than 7 characters, it is interpreted as a
compact bit-pattern representation. The characters 0, 1, x, a, i and o will
be recognised as the corresponding bit, whilst any of the characters ., -, _
or / can act as arbitrary visual separators, which are ignored. Examples:
loadpage_lo = "0100.0000--000x.xxxx--xxaa.aaaa--iiii.iiii";
loadpage_lo = "0100.0000", "000x.xxxx", "xxaa.aaaa", "iiii.iiii";
loadpage_lo = "0100.0000", "000x.xxxx.xxaa.aaaa", "iiii.iiii";
loadpage_lo = "0100.0000-000x.xxxx--xxaa.aaaa-iiii.iiii";
loadpage_lo = "0100.0000/000x.xxxx/xxaa.aaaa/iiii.iiii";
The compact format is an extension of the current format, which remains
valid. Both, the compact and the traditional specification can be mixed in
different strings, albeit not in the same string:
load_ext_addr = "0100.1101", "0000.0000.0000", "0 0 0 a16", "0000.0000";
This commit changes the philosophy whenever avrdude.conf encounters the
same memory of a part for the second time or whenever a memory is
described that, through inheritance, already existed: AVRDUDE no longer
zaps the memory, it rather extends it.
Therefore, avrdude.conf.in's entry for ATmega128RFA1, which inherits from
the ATmega2561, needs a line `load_ext_addr = NULL;` in its flash memory
description to zap the inherited load_ext_addr SPI command.
Other than this, avrdude.conf.in needs no other change in order to effect
the same internal representation proving earlier updates to the .conf.in
file correct that manually ensured inheritance of memory contents.
When an SPI command has a lone 'a' the initialisation now is as would be
expected by all commands that take an address. Atmel's opcodes for SPI
programming are consistent in this respect. This commit makes specifying
the bit number in avrdude.conf optional. Instead of
read_lo = "0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a13 a12 a11 a10 a9 a8 a7 a6 a5 a4 a3 a2 a1 a0 o o o o o o o o";
one can now use
read_lo = "0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a o o o o o o o o";
Some 90% of the space of AVRPART and some 50% of PROGRAMMER is occupied by a
4 kB array config_file[] that contains the configuration file name. In
preparation of developer options that output a raw dump of the part
descriptions, this commit changes the config_file components from a large
array, which is duplicated in each part and programmer description, to a
cached string for each config file allowing for smaller raw dumps.
This commit also changes the config file name to its realpath(), eg, shortens
unwarranted `/bin/../etc/` file name components. It also changes the global
variable names `infile` and `fileno` to cfg_infile and cfg_fileno for an ever
so slight improvement of code clarity.
The new file type I is essentially Intel HEX that, on download, inserts
comments next to data records with the resolved effective address and an
ASCII dump of that same record. On upload the `I` format is permissive
with respect to check sum errors, eg, after manipulated an Intel HEX file
for debugging.
Usbtiny has a protocol or firmware problem that prevents it from reading
flash above 64 kB in page mode (used by -U flash:r:... and -U flash✌️...).
This commit fixes that problem by falling back on byte access for flash paged
reads above 64k. It also issues the correct load extended address command for
parts with more than 128 kB flash thus extending support to ATmega2560 et al.
Some C libraries assign true to isalpha(0xff), isdigit(0xff) or
ispunct(0xff), which means that the Operating System terminal sees a
character 0xff which it may not have a useful display character for.
This commit only outputs printable ASCII characters for an AVRDUDE
terminal dump reducing the risk of the OS terminal not being able
to print the character properly.
Error messages are written to stderr whilst normal terminal output is stdout.
When redirecting output to pipelines or files these two streams can get
separated as they are buffered separately. To avoid this, term.c now provides
a function terminal_message() that works just like avrdude_message() but
flushes stderr and stdout before printing on stderr, and it flushes stderr
afterwards.
This commit replaces all avrdude_message() calls except for progress report
with terminal_message() to ensure stdout and stderr streams keep together.
This enables the new quell terminal command to switch on and off progress
reports to the terminal. The code for this was moved from main.c to term.c.
It can be used as library call for other frontends than main.c
Stefan Rueger
MCUdude