Re: [avrdude-dev] Include GPIO sysfs patch in next release?

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> As Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason why you don't want to include it in your main
>> repo?
>
> There's at least a reason that it's not very generic: it covers only a
> small fraction of the OSes supported by AVRDUDE.

Sure, but that does not mean because it is a minority that it should not go in.

> But the second (and more important) reason for why its priority
> regarding inclusion is rather low: documentation update is left as an
> exercise to the reader.  Of course, in practice, it means it's left as
> an exercise for the maintainer(s). :-(

I will write a blog post on how it works for me.

Right now I have a gentoo ebuild + patch-for-gpio file, it works.

Will push my ebuild to github.

And even a complete binary image of the linux distro so that people
can try it just by flashing a binary on their SD card (for the
beaglebone at least).

>> Could you include it in your next release?
>
> Would someone be willing to add documentation for it?  My main goal
> for AVRDUDE 6.0 is to fix all of the outstanding Xmega issues, and all
> my available resources are tied up with this.

Yes, the gpio enabling requires some commands to enable them, but
that's 4 shell commands to expose the GPIOs in /sys/class/gpio.

> Besides, I wonder whether the --enable-gpio feature would better be
> auto-probed in configure.ac?

Sure, if you do not want to activate that feature in your build, that
should not go in.

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