Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc/avr-binutils/avr-libc and the ATMega168 - what did I do wrong here, tnx!

[E. Weddington]

Victoria Welch wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I had an old avr tool suite from Gentoo linux's portage:
>
> *  dev-embedded/avr-binutils
>      Latest version available: 2.14
>      Latest version installed: 2.15
>
> *  dev-embedded/avr-gcc
>      Latest version available: 3.3-r1
>      Latest version installed: 3.4.3
>
> *  dev-embedded/avr-libc
>      Latest version available: 1.0.2-r1
>      Latest version installed: 1.2.0
>
> Had the latest version and today I emerged the masked stuff 
> and created an ebuild for avr-libc 1.2.0 and emerged that 
> giving me the "Latest version installed" versions per 
> above.
>
> Somehow I had the impression that this would add some of the 
> newer devices, especially for me, the ATMega168.  
> Apparently not or there is something I am missing.
>
>  
The ATmega168 support (and some other devices) is currently in the form 
of a patch that resides on the avr-libc project page. This patch has 
been committed to Binutils HEAD (future 2.16) and GCC HEAD (future 4.0), 
but can also be applied to Binutils 2.15 and GCC 3.4.x (which is done 
for WinAVR).

Here's the link to the patch:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=2923>
The patch is marked as closed because it's been already committed to the 
projects.

Also you should be aware that avr-libc 1.2.0 and greater already has 
support for these new devices, so a patch is not necessary for avr-libc. 
And you should also be aware that avr-libc just released version 1.2.1 
yesterday. This release fixes a number of things in 1.2.0 so I would 
highly recommend that you use the latest version.

Good luck!

Eric