Re: [avrdude-dev] About multiple signatures patch

[crazyiop]

Hi,

I remember posting it to the tracker :
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?34302

I don't think I could manage to do the coding, but I'll be happy to help
with the conf file compacting.

2011/11/8 Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden>

> Hi Tomaž,
>
> > A while back I submitted a patch that allows you to specify multiple
> > "signature" declarations per "part" in avrdude.conf. [1]
>
> Sorry for not responding to that earlier.
>
> > I haven't received any feedback on my patch. I've seen a different,
> > more general approach proposed by David Ford [3] that adds support
> > for property inheritance via a "parent" directive.
>
> Yes, that idea has been tossed around already before.  The advantage
> is that it allows to share even more than just multiple signatures,
> e.g. you can cover complete device families by a single entry, where
> the derived entries change the signature *and* the memory sizes as
> well.
>
> > If you would be willing
> > to accept a patch implementing that, I am prepared to work on it.
>
> That would be great!  Implementing that (and then compacting
> avrdude.conf) was basically what I thought would be my next job, as
> time permits.  I'd really like to have this feature aboard in the next
> AVRDUDE release, as it allows to add a number of outstanding devices
> very easily.
>
> --
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