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Fri Jul 10 22:55:22 2009 UTC (15 years ago) by joerg_wunsch
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Releasing AVRDUDE 5.8.

1 $Id$
2
3 Approximate change log for AVRDUDE by version.
4
5 (For more detailed changes, see the ChangeLog file.)
6
7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
8 Version 5.8:
9
10 * Bugfixes; most importantly, fix a serious memory corruption for
11 that JTAG ICE mkII and AVR Dragon in ISP/HVSP/PP mode.
12
13 Version 5.7:
14
15 * New devices supported:
16
17 - ATXMEGA64A1
18 - ATXMEGA192A1
19 - ATXMEGA256A1
20 - ATXMEGA64A3
21 - ATXMEGA128A3
22 - ATXMEGA192A3
23 - ATXMEGA256A3
24 - ATXMEGA256A3B
25 - ATXMEGA16A4
26 - ATXMEGA32A4
27 - ATXMEGA64A4
28 - ATXMEGA128A4
29
30 * Major Xmega fixes for the JTAG ICE mkII (patch #6825)
31
32 * Bugfixes.
33
34 Version 5.6:
35
36 * New devices supported:
37
38 - AT90USB82
39 - AT90USB162
40 - ATtiny88
41 - ATmega328P
42 - ATmega1284P
43 - ATmega128RFA1
44 - ATxmega128A1 rev D
45 - ATxmega128A1
46 - ATxmega256A3
47
48 * New programmers supported:
49
50 - AT89ISP cable (patch #6069)
51 - Arduino
52
53 * Add support for the -x option to pass extended parameters to the
54 programmer backend.
55
56 * Add support for JTAG daisy-chains, using the -x daisychain=
57 option.
58
59 * Add support for the Atmel STK600 for "classic" AVRs (AT90, ATtiny,
60 ATmega), using either ISP or high-voltage programming modes.
61
62 * Add support for the -x devcode extended parameter to the avr910
63 programmer, to allow overriding the device code sent to the
64 programmer.
65
66 * Add support for the Crossbow MIB510 programmer (patch #6074, #6542).
67
68 * Add support to bootstrap with GNU autoconf 2.61, and automake 1.10,
69 respectively.
70
71 * Add support for ATxmega128A1 (including the revision D engineering
72 samples) for STK600 and AVRISPmkII tools using PDI
73
74 * The option combination -tF now enters terminal mode even if the
75 device initialization failed, so the user can modify programmer
76 parameters (like Vtarget).
77
78 * Add preliminary support for ATxmega128A1 for the JTAG ICE mkII using
79 JTAG.
80
81 * Add support for direct SPI transfers (bug #25156).
82
83 * Bugfixes.
84
85 Version 5.5:
86
87 * Add support for the USBtinyISP programmer (patch #6233)
88
89 * Add support for the C2N232I serial bitbang programmer (patch #6121)
90
91 * Bugfixes.
92
93 Version 5.4:
94
95 * New devices supported:
96
97 - AT90PWM2B/AT90PWM3B
98
99 * Bugfixes.
100
101 * Source code rearranged so that the functionality is now built
102 into a libavrdude.a library where main.c is currently the only
103 existing frontend.
104
105 * Implement ATmega256x support for butterfly/avr109.
106
107 Version 5.3.1:
108
109 * Add support for the AVR Dragon (all modes: ISP, JTAG, HVSP, PP,
110 debugWire).
111
112 * Add support for debugWire (both, JTAG ICE mkII, and AVR Dragon).
113
114 * Add support for the AVR Doper USB HID-class programmer.
115
116 * Bugfixes.
117
118 Version 5.2:
119
120 * New devices supported:
121
122 - AT90USB646/647/1286/1287
123 - ATmega2560/2561
124 - ATmega325/3250/645/6450
125 - ATtiny11 (HVSP only device)
126 - ATtiny261/461/861
127
128 * Fixed paged flash write operations for AT90PWMx devices
129 (error in datasheet).
130
131 * Add signature verification.
132
133 * Add high-voltage mode programming for the STK500 (both,
134 parallel, and high-voltage serial programming).
135
136 * Add support for using the JTAG ICE mkII as a generic ISP
137 programmer.
138
139 * Allow for specifying the ISP clock delay as an option for
140 bit-bang programming adapters.
141
142 * Add support for Thomas Fischl's USBasp low-cost USB-attached
143 programmer.
144
145 * The "stk500" programmer type is now implemented as a stub
146 that tries to probe for either "stk500v1" or "stk500v2".
147
148 * Many bugfixes.
149
150 Version 5.1:
151
152 * New devices supported:
153
154 - ATmega640/1280/1281
155 - ATtiny24/44/84
156
157 * JTAG mkII support now works with libusb-win32, too
158
159 * JTAG ICE mkI support has been added
160
161 * Solaris support has been added (including ecpp(7D) parallel-port
162 bit-bang mode)
163
164
165 Version 5.0:
166
167 * Support for JTAGICE MkII device
168
169 * Support for STK500 Version 2 Protocol
170
171 * New devices supported:
172
173 - AT90CAN128
174 - ATmega329x/649x
175 - ATmega164/324/644
176 - AT90PWM2/3,
177 - ATmega164/324/644
178 - ATmega329x/649x
179 - ATtiny25/45/85
180
181 * Support for serial bit-bang adapters: Ponyprog serial, UISP DASA,
182 UISP DASA3.
183
184 * DAPA programmer pinout supported
185
186 * New "safemode" feature where fuse bits are verified before exit
187 and if possible recovered if they have changed. This is intended
188 to protect against changed fuses which were not requested which is
189 reported to sometimes happen due to improper power supply or other
190 reasons.
191
192 * Various fixes for avr910 and butterfly programmers
193
194 * Full support for AVR109 boot loaders (butterfly)
195
196 * Adding -q -q suppresses most terminal output
197
198
199 Version 4.4.0:
200
201 * Native Win32 support: The windows build doesn't need Cygwin
202 anymore. Additionally, the delay timing on windows should be
203 more accurate now.
204 Contributed by Martin Thomas
205
206 * Add support for
207 - ATmega48, ATmega88 (contributed by Galen Seitz)
208 - ATtiny2313 (contributed by Bob Paddock)
209 - ATtiny13 (contributed by Pawel Moll)
210
211 * Added command to change the SCK of STK500-programmers. Now it
212 is possible to program uC with slow oscillator.
213 Contributed by Galen Seitz
214
215 * Baudrate for serial programmers (STK500 and AVR910) is
216 configurable in the config or at the command-line.
217 This way some more tweaked bootloaders and programmers can be used.
218
219 * Deprecated options have been removed.
220 Now the "-U" option must be used.
221
222 * MacOS X now supported by default.
223
224 Version 4.3.0:
225
226 * Added support for "Butterfly" evaluation board.
227
228 * Make cycle-count work with AVR910-programmers.
229
230 * Added "Troubleshooting"-Appendix to the manual.
231
232 * Add ATmega8515 support.
233 Contributed by: Matthias Weißer <matthias@matwei.de>
234
235 * Add ATmega64 support.
236 Contributed by: Erik Christiansen <erik@dd.nec.com.au>
237
238 * Improved polling algorithm to speed up
239 programming of byte oriented parallel programmers.
240 Contributed by: Jan-Hinnerk Reichert <jan-hinnerk_reichert@hamburg.de>
241
242 * Add "fuse" and "lock" definitions for the AT90S8535.
243
244 * STK500 skips empty pages in paged write resulting in faster downloads
245 when there are empty blocks in between code (such as files that contain
246 application code and bootloader code).
247
248 Version 4.2.0:
249
250 * Add basic support for reading and writing fuses via SPI with avr910
251 programmers. Submitted by
252 Jan-Hinnerk Reichert <jan-hinnerk_reichert@hamburg.de>.
253
254 * Perform an auto erase before programming if the flash memory is
255 anywhere specified to be written by any of the -U requests. Old
256 style memory specification options (-f, -i, -I, -m, and -o) are
257 deprecated in favor of the new -U options. Auto erase is disabled
258 if any of the old-style options (specifically -i and -o) are
259 specified.
260
261 * Add new -U option for specifying programming operations - allows
262 multiple memory operations on a single command line.
263
264 * New progress reporting, looks nicer and is nicer to wrapper
265 environments such as emacs.
266
267 * Fix long-standing timing (verify) problems on Windows platform.
268 Submitted by Alex Shepherd <ashepherd@wave.co.nz>.
269
270 * Add new file format option - 'm' for "immediate mode." In this
271 case, the filename argument of the -o, -i, or -U options is
272 treated as the data for uploading - useful for specifying fuse
273 bits without having to create a single-byte file for uploading.
274
275 * Add support for displaying and setting the various STK500 operational
276 parameters (Vtarget, Varef, Master clock).
277
278 * Add 'picoweb' programming cable programmer.
279 Contributed by Rune Christensen <rune.christensen@adslhome.dk>.
280
281 * Add support for the sp12 programmer. Submitted by
282 Larry Barello <larryba@barrello.net>.
283
284
285 Version 4.1.0
286
287 * Add support for the Bascom SAMPLE programmer. Submitted by
288 Larry Barello <larryba@barrello.net>.
289
290 * Add support for avr910 type programmers (mcu00100, pavr avr910, etc).
291
292 * Support new devices: ATmega8535, ATtiny26
293
294
295 Version 4.0.0
296
297 * Now support Linux - added by "Theodore A. Roth" <troth@openavr.org>.
298
299 * Now support Windows - added by "Eric B. Weddington" <eric@ecentral.com>.
300
301 * Use 'configure' scripts to tailor the code to the system avrdude
302 is getting ready to be compiled on - added by "Theodore A. Roth"
303 <troth@openavr.org>.
304
305 * Motorola S-Record support - submitted by "Alexey V.Levdikov "
306 <tsar@kemford.com>.
307
308 * Support parallel programming on the STK500. Introduce 'pagel' and
309 'bs2' keywords to the config file for this purpose.
310
311 * Add support for the AT90S2343
312
313 * Add support for the ATmega169
314
315 * Add ability to specify system defaults within the config file
316 (default parallel port, default serial port).
317
318 * Specify the default programmer seperately from the programmer
319 definition. This is now done in the config file using the
320 'default_programmer' keyword.
321
322 * Support a per-user config file (~/.avrduderc) so that one can
323 override system wide defaults if desired.
324
325 * Follow the datasheet more closely for several parts in the "retry"
326 code when entering programming mode fails initially. Introduce
327 'retry_pulse' to the config file for this purpose.
328
329
330
331 Version 3.1.0
332
333 * This change represents a name change only. There is currently an
334 effort to port AVRPROG to other platforms including Linux and
335 Windows. Since Atmel's programmer binary that's included within
336 their AVR Studio software is named AVRPROG.EXE on the Windows OS,
337 there is the chance for confusion if we keep calling this program
338 AVRPROG as well. Up until now the name hasn't really been a
339 problem since there was no chance to confuse 'avrprog' on Unix
340 with Atmel's AVRPROG because Atmel's tools only run on Windows.
341 But with the Unix 'avrprog' possibly being ported to Windows, I
342 felt a name change was the best way to avoid problems.
343
344 So - from this point forward, my FreeBSD Unix program formerly
345 known as AVRPROG will subsequently be known as AVRDUDE (AVR
346 Downloader/UploaDEr).
347
348 This change also represents a time when the AVRDUDE sources move
349 from my own private repository to a public repository. This will
350 give other developers a chance to port AVRDUDE to other platforms
351 and extend its functionality to support additional programming
352 hardware, etc.
353
354 So goodbye AVRPROG, welcome AVRDUDE!
355
356 Version 3.0.0
357
358 * Rewrite parts of the code to make it easy to support other types
359 of programmers besides the directly connected parallel port
360 programmer (PPI).
361
362 * Add support for Atmel's STK500 programmer/development board. The
363 STK500's "paged mode" read/write is supported which makes this
364 programmer very fast. This is sorely needed on parts with large
365 memories such as the ATmega128. My 12K test program burns in
366 about 5 seconds, add another 5 to read it back out for
367 verification.
368
369
370 Version 2.1.5:
371
372 * When getting ready to initiate communications with the AVR device,
373 first pull /RESET low for a short period of time before enabling
374 the buffer chip. This sequence allows the AVR to be reset before
375 the buffer is enabled to avoid a short period of time where the
376 AVR may be driving the programming lines at the same time the
377 programmer tries to. Of course, if a buffer is being used, then
378 the /RESET line from the programmer needs to be directly connected
379 to the AVR /RESET line and not via the buffer chip.
380
381 Feature contributed by Rick C. Petty <rick@KIWI-Computer.com>.
382
383 * When in interactive terminal mode and dumping memory using the
384 'dump <memtype>' command without any address information, and the
385 end of memory is reached, wrap back around to zero on the next
386 invocation.
387
388
389 Version 2.1.4:
390
391 * Fix -Y option.
392
393
394 Version 2.1.3:
395
396 * Be backward compatible when reading 2-byte rewrite cycle counters
397 as written by avrprog version 2.1.0. Version 2.1.1 changed over
398 to a 4-byte counter, which caused avrprog versions 2.1.1 and 2.1.2
399 to report a negative count for parts that were initialized using
400 version 2.1.0. Thanks to Joerg Wunsch for noticing this.
401
402
403 Version 2.1.2:
404
405 * Add '-V' option to disable automatic verify check with uploading
406 data.
407
408
409 Version 2.1.1:
410
411 * Fix ATmega128 instruction sequences for reading fuse bits -
412 contributed by Joerg Wunsch.
413
414 * Modify erase-rewrite cycle counter code to use a 4 byte counter
415 instead of a two byte counter.
416
417
418 Version 2.1.0:
419
420 * Implement a per-part erase-rewrite cycle counter; requires the use
421 of two bytes of EEPROM memory.
422
423
424 Version 2.0.5:
425
426 * Support for ATtiny15 - contributed by Asher Hoskins
427
428
429 Version 2.0.4:
430
431 * Config file fixes for various parts.
432
433
434 Version 2.0.3:
435
436 * Work around problem programming fuse bits on parts like the
437 at90s4433 as described in the following errata:
438
439 http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc1280.pdf
440
441 * Add part definition for at90s4414, at90s4433.
442
443 * Add fuse/lock bit memory instructions for the at90s1200,
444 at90s2333, at90s4433 and at90s8515.
445
446 * Fix setting of programmer status LEDs under certain write-fail
447 conditions.
448
449
450 Version 2.0.2 :
451
452 * Fix writing to read-only memories such as the lock bits of the
453 AT90S2313.
454
455 * Copyright updates.
456
457
458 Version 2.0.1 :
459
460 * Use correct parallel port pins for VCC.
461
462 * Add programmer definition for Atmel's STK200.
463
464 * Add programmer definition for the AVR3 board.
465
466 * Fix address bit encoding for many parts.
467
468 * Allow the ``BUFF'' signal to be asserted by multiple pins of the
469 parallel port (like VCC) instead of just one. The STK200 appears
470 to need this feature.
471
472
473 Version 2.0.0 :
474
475 * Add support for programming fuse and lock bits if supported by the
476 part.
477
478 * Move instruction encoding into the config file. Now any part can
479 be supported as long as it uses the same basic serial programming
480 instruction format.
481
482 * Add part definitions for the ATMega163 and ATMega8 devices.
483
484
485 Version 1.4.3 :
486
487 * Mostly internal code cleanup.
488
489
490 Version 1.4.2 :
491
492 * Fixes for ATMega paged memory support.
493
494 * Support for ATMega16 device.
495
496
497 Version 1.4.1 :
498
499 * No functional changes, update to Copyrights only.
500
501
502 Version 1.4.0 :
503
504 * Add part definitions to the config file.
505
506 * Add initial support for Atmel's ATMega paged memory parts.
507
508 * Config file documentation added.
509
510 * Add a definition for the Dontronics DT006 programmer.
511
512 * Fix Intel Hex support for addresses larger than 64k.
513
514
515 Version 1.3.0 :
516
517 * Make programmer pin assignments configurable.
518
519
520 Version 1.2.2 :
521
522 * Initial public release.

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