Re: [avrdude-dev] New chinese programmer's driver

[René Liebscher]

Hi Simone,

if it is really a clone of usbasp then the usbasp-clone programmer
introduced with avrdude 6 might work.

What is the output of lsusb? Are VID/PID the same as usbasp?


Kind regards

René Liebscher


On 20.01.2014 13:39, Simone Briatore wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm new in this mailing list.
> 
> 2 weeks ago I bought this device
> http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=36596969793 (the website is in
> chinese), by zhifeng software, which is simply a usb to ISP device with
> an additional reset pin that can be controlled via software. The
> hardware is based upon an atmel microcontroller and few other
> components, and i think is a modified version of the usbasp project
> (http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/)
> 
> Since it is very cheap (~2.5$) and it works well (under windows with its
> proprietary program), i want to write down a linux driver (since i use
> linux).
> Using reverse engineering methods i came up with a working (with some
> minor bugs) libusb program that can send and receive data through the isp.
> Now i would like to insert it in avrdude but i encountered some troubles:
> 
>     - I never used avrdude, since i couldn't with my programmer, so i
> just red some tutorials about it
>     - I could not find a documentation about implementing a new programmer
> 
> Is there some sort of standard way to implement a new programmer in
> avrdude? A sort of API or similar? I searched a little around but i
> didn't find anything...
> 
> or
> 
> Instead of adding an avrdude component you think is better to create a
> real linux driver and make the device appear as a standard linux SPI
> interface and then tell avrdude to access it? Like a /dev/<something>
> device let's say...
> 
> Thank you very much
> ...and sorry if i did some mistakes but english is not my first language..
> 
> Simone Briatore
> 
> 
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