[avrdude-dev] avrdude on FreeBSD/sparc64

[Joerg Wunsch]

Hiya,

there happened to be an older Sun E450 around here which made a nice
platform for me to test FreeBSD/sparc64 on it (4 CPUs, 12 disk drives
on 4 SCSI channels :-), but only 256 MB of RAM is left in it).

The good news: after upgrading the compiler port to GCC 3.4.0 (*), the
entire toolchain compiles on the UltraSPARC machine quite well, and so
far it seems to work.  (As already noticed by Matthias Weißer in the
AVR-GCC list, GCC 3.3.x did not compile at all on a 64-bit host OS.)

(*) Not yet committed to the FreeBSD repository because of the FreeBSD
4.10 ports freeze.

Now I might give avrdude a try here, on a serial device only
(FreeBSD/sparc64 doesn't seem to support the parallel port hardware on
that machine yet).  However, so far I get:

xcd1# avrdude -c stk500 -p t26 
lcreat(): warning, LISTSZ[32] != sizeof(LIST)[56]
lcreat(): warning, LISTSZ[32] != sizeof(LIST)[56]
lcreat(): warning, LISTSZ[32] != sizeof(LIST)[56]
lcreat(): warning, LISTSZ[32] != sizeof(LIST)[56]
...

That seems to be a 64-bit OS issue to me, doesn't it?  I didn't look
into the source code though.
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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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