Re: [avr-chat] AVrDude download

[Joerg Wunsch]

Irving Ruan <address@hidden> wrote:

> It's called 'AVRPROG', which is Atmel's own. AVRDUDE is essentially
> the *nix variant of AVRPROG.

Sorry, this is entirely and completely wrong.  AVRPROG is old and
unmaintained software that covers *just* the AVR910 protocol, runs
only on Win32 systems, and can only and solely handle COM1 through
COM4.

AVRDUDE in contrast handles some 60+ of different programming
adapters, using at least two dozens of different host protocols,
ranging from simple manual bit-banging the ISP protocol on the host,
through virtually all Atmel-supplied tools in a single program (rather
than one program per tool), running on Win32 systems as well (at
least) Linux, MacOS X, *BSD and Solaris.

The only thing AVRPROG handles which AVRDUDE does not want to handle
for legal reasons is decrypting the STK500 firmware files (those with
the suffix .ebn).

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