Re: [avr-gcc-list] ATMEGA2560 support

[Mark Litwack]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 02:56:55 am Dale Whitfield wrote:
> Hi                                          >@2008.04.08_08:06:07_+0200
>
> > Hi Erik                                         
> > >@2008.04.08_03:04:19_+0200
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:32:09PM +0200, Dale Whitfield wrote:
> > > > > > But I'm afraid its not clear where the scripts or patches are
> > > > > > that are referenced on that page. There are no links to them...
> > > > >
> > > > > There are, but I'm afraid you have to log into avrfreaks.net to be
> > > > > able to access them.
> > > >
> > > > Arrggg! The time I wasted searching avrfreaks (and elsewhere) for
> > > > that info. Its not obvious.
> > >
> > > Such sneaky skulduggery tends to confirm one's aversion to repeating
> > > the experience of visiting the site. Publishing the hoarded URLs here
> > > would be a service to the community, if you have them to hand.
> > >
> > > Mind you, links to any outstanding patches would probably be enough for
> > > this list, I suspect.
> >
> > The list is here:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/devel/avr-gcc/file
> >s/
> >
> > I'm currently testing a build of avr-gcc 4.3.0 and avr-libc 1.6.2,
> > courtesy of the Debian maintainer, which includes 256x support from
> > those patches. Only lightly tested but so far so good.
>
> This code wasn't usable and I've had to use WinAvr in the meantime. I
> really need to get back to my native Linux build environment. To do
> this, a workable avr-gcc is necessary.
>
> The question now is about up to date patches.
>
> Since last posting here in early April, there have been 3 WinAVR
> releases, however, the patch list at freebsd still appears to have the
> same files, all of which are more than 6 months old.
>
> Can someone confirm (Eric?) whether the patches here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/devel/avr-gcc/files/
>
> are those used to build the version of WinAVR which generates good code
> for METGA256x devices?


If you want the winavr functionality, why not just use the
patches on sourceforge that were used to create winavr? :

  http://winavr.cvs.sourceforge.net/winavr

Eric has done a good job collecting and organizing the
patches for all the tools and they appear to always be up to
date.

Using the patches in the winavr CVS has worked fine for me
under Fedora8 for all the tools I use (gcc, binutils,
avr-libc, insight).  Just leave out any windows specific
patches.

-mark