Re: [avr-gcc-list] ATMega8 Support?

[Michael Tsao]

> Is the ATMega8 supported yet?

Building for the '163 mostly works. Just change the MCU switch in your 
makefile to specify the '163 and do a clean build of your project. However, 
interrupts won't work (except for INT0, which happens to be at the right 
place in the mega8's vector table).

If you want your interrupt vector table to be correct, you have to do some 
minor surgery:

1. Find the iom163.h and iom8.h header files. These should have come with 
the source distribution you already have; if you're missing iom8.h, get it 
in the latest source distribution, which has it (I used avr-libc-20020203).

2. Modify iom163.h as follows:

   i. Change FLASHEND from 3fff to 1fff.

  ii. Copy the interrupt macros (the list mapping things like 
SIG_INTERRUPT1 to _vector_2) from iom8.h to iom163.h, replacing the one 
already in iom163.h. You probably also should have made a backup copy of the 
original iom163.h. If you can't find _vector_xxx in your header file, then 
the version of libc that you have is too old.

 iii. Copy the vector table descriptors from iom8.h to iom163.h, replacing 
the ones already in iom163.h:

   #define END_VECTOR      (18)
   #define INT_VECT_SIZE   (0x26)

3. cd to the root directory of your libc source distribution.

4. Make clean, make, then make install (in other words, follow the same 
steps you followed when you first acquired libc for avr).

5. Rebuild your project (be sure to clean first). At this point, you should 
have a .hex file that gcc/libc *thinks* was built for the '163 but that has 
an interrupt vector table for the '8.

6. If you want to make sure that the project built correctly, open the .hex 
file in AVR Studio and verify that the vector table at the beginning of the 
file is composed of RJMP (relative jump) instructions and not JMP (absolute 
jump) instructions. Or make sure that the table is aligned on single-word 
boundaries, not double-word boundaries.

Good luck.

P.S. If anyone else knows of reasons why this bastardized code won't work 
properly for the mega8, please let the list know -- it'll save the rest of 
us some debugging time until gcc/libc for the mega8 comes out.

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