Re: [avrdude-dev] Status

[E. Weddington]

On 6 Jul 2004 at 17:02, Jan-Hinnerk Reichert wrote:

> On Thursday 01 July 2004 20:08, E. Weddington wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> 
> Well, here's my two cent...
> 
> > There are 3 bugs:
> > 7309, 7383, 7492
> > The fourth bug (8265) I think looks like a non-issue.
> 
> I agree with #8265.

Thanks for taking a look at that too.

> IMHO we can't do much about #7309 and #7492 without more information.
> 
> We  should take care of #7383 sometime, but I don't think it must get 
> in before the release.
> 
> > There are 6 patches to be reviewed and possibly rolled in.
> 
> #3170 and #3172 could be included with almost no risk. I like the idea 
> of a compile date. However, I think the information should only be in 
> the CVS and I would like to have it behind the version number.
> 
> #3092 looks nice, but I haven't had time to look at it in greater 
> detail. IMHO it should go in shortly *after* the release.

If nobody else has any objections, then I'll defer to your judgment.
 
> IMHO #3136 is important, because some chips (slow internal RC) can't 
> be programmed without it (using STK500). However, I think that it 
> would be nice to be able to change the SPI-clock at the command line 
> or in the configuration, too.
> 
> It looks like we will have to think about SPI-clock for PPI 
> programmers, too: The SPI-code for windows is still waiting for a 
> major speedup which would break programming of slow (500kHz) devices.
> 
> And perhaps there are people who have their AVR running at 32.768kHz

Is #3136 important enough to put in sometime this week? Or do you think that we 
should defer this until after a release?
 
 
> > Does the NEWS file need updates?
> 
> - Baudrate for serial programmers is selectable via config or 
> command-line-switch.
> 
> - Removed deprecated options!!!
> 
> - Some small fixes and cleanup
> 

Will you be updating the NEWS file with these changes? :-)

Thanks

Eric