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.
Stefan Rueger
MCUdude
Marius Greuel
Dawid Buchwald