Re: [patch #9110] Let reserved fuse bits to be read as *don't care*

[Joerg Wunsch]

As David Sainty wrote:

> Patch updated at https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?8719

Thanks!

> The XBee support adds a new programmer type with no other changes, so it's
> a very light-touch patch - if the user doesn't select the "xbee" programmer
> then there's no opportunity for the patch to cause problems.

Agreed.

> It does need to know the XBee Zigbee address of the remote device on the
> mesh, which is supplied along with the serial port of the local XBee device
> - E.g. `-P 0013a2004183dd6d@/dev/tty.usbserial-DN05LQ2S`, where
> `/dev/tty.usbserial-DN05LQ2S` is MacOS's serial port device name and
> `0013a2004183dd6d` is the ZigBee address of a remote XBee that shares a
> mesh with the XBee on that serial port.  That is somewhat quirky, and arose
> from there not being a straightforward place to store that data without
> treading on the feet of the stk500 programmer I'm essentially overloading.

Well, please add some kind of example and this explanation to the
documentation. I don't care much whether you add it to avrdude.1 or
doc/avrdude.texi, or to both (I'm willing to add the missing half if
you do only one of both) - but without an example, I guess nobody will
be able to figure out how to use it unless they read this example here
in the mailing list.

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