Unified ELF file [was: RE: [avr-chat] Re: GUI wrapper for avrdude]

[Eric Weddington]

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> As Eric Weddington wrote:
>
> > Patches to avrdude are welcome to read an ELF file, and to program
> > flash, eeprom, and fuses from a single ELF file.
>
> Btw., AVaRICE has been working like that for years (using the ELF
> file, and derive the memory region type based on the offsets).  It
> only takes care of flash ROM and EEPROM images as loadable images, but
> also does already have offsets for fuse (0x820000), lock (0x830000),
> and signature (0x840000) address spaces.  It eventually reads all
> possible sections of a particular memory type into an internal image,
> and then uses it to program the respective memory areas from that.
>

[CCing avr-libc-dev. Apologies for duplicates. We should probably move
conversation there.]

One issue that probably should be addressed:

How does a GNU assembler-only project specify fuse settings, lock bit
settings, etc., in this potential scheme?

Eric Weddington