Re: [avrdude-dev] Re: STK500 version 2.0 protocol

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Erik Walthinsen wrote:

> And actually, the only reason I ended up having one of my AVR-ISP's
> upgraded to 2.0 was because AVR Studio 4 refused to work with the
> old one at all. ;-(

I thought it's a warning only, and even this can be supressed by
fiddling with some windoze registry entry?  At least that's the
impression I've got from reading the avrfreaks thread.

> An autodetect would be handy, but I think it would be better to add
> a function to each programmer module that does an autosense, and let
> the higher level code handle the process of calling each one to see
> if one comes back with an ACK.

I don't care much.

> Once the stk500v2 stuff is working I might take a crack at that,
> though I guess there's really no good reason for me not to upgrade
> my other AVR-ISP once it works.

Supposedly, the new protocol is better than the old one.  Maybe it's
better suited for packet-oriented connections like USB?  I didn't look
into it so far.

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