Re: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] Boot Loader Support

[E. Weddington]

On 9 Sep 2002 at 15:36, ken restivo wrote:

> Very cool, thanks!
> 
> The avr-boot.h functions look pretty efficient; I'm sure they'll be
> very useful to many, especially those with the larger parts who get to
> write their bootloaders in c. Alas, I have an atmega163 with only 16K
> flash, and budget of only 512 bytes for a bootloader, so I'm stuck
> writing mine in assembler. Oh well.
> 

So I can safely say that you would vote to include assembly macros to 
do the same thing as well then?

> It might also be helpful to include Bryce Denney's main.lcf or a

I can't seem to find that. Could you send me a copy?

> sample Makefile with some of the --defsyms in it, or both. BTW, when I
> used -nodefaultlibs and -nostartfiles, then I had to manually define
> __stack as well.  Fun fun fun.
> 
> - -ken


Also, I forgot to mention that the macro boot_mem_read() in avr-
boot.h, essentially does the same (or is supposed to) as the macros 
_LPM() and _ELPM() in ina90.h. However, there have been some recent 
posts on avr-gcc-list about problems with the macros in ina90.h, 
especially trying to use them on an ATmega128. But again, I haven't 
tested boot_mem_read() on other devices so I don't know if it could 
be a straight-across replacement for those macros.

Eric