AVR-Chat

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>Come on over to the dark side, Dave - FreeBSD.
>
>Find a spare system and load up the latest FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE
>Download that from here:
>
>         http://www.freebsd.org/
>
>To install avr-gcc:
>         cd /usr/ports/devel/avr-gcc && make install
>
>To install avrdude:
>         cd /usr/ports/devel/avrdude && make install
>
>To install avarice:
>         cd /usr/ports/devel/avarice && make install
>
>To install avr-gdb;
>         cd /usr/ports/devel/avr-gdb && make install
>
>To install a pretty good simulator:
>         cd /usr/ports/devel/simulavr && make install
>
>No fuss.
>Grab a JTAGICE and a manual on the GNU Debugger (assuming you are new at 
>that) and you're good to go.
>
>Also, I get the feeling you're an assembler person

Bingo. I feel the need, the need for SPEED! :)


>Unfortunately, since the Atmel ICE products like the ICE-200 are
>closed spec, there are no open source tools that can use them, to the
>best of my knowledge.  That may be a show stopper for you.  But the
>JTAGICE works well in combination with avarice and gdb, at least I
>haven't had any problems with it at all.  I just used it the other day
>to track down a particularly elusive memory overwrite bug.

Speaking of that, I do wish that atmel hadn't decided to make the registers 
available as ram.
I'm on the trail now, of what may be a bad ST Z,temp into register space.
Does that platform allow breaking on write to ram or register?
IMHO, this is a MAJOR failing of all the existing AVR tools.

>  I usually
>only pull out the JTAGICE when debugging with printf() or tracking
>program progress and state via carefully placed port pin changes and
>monitoring with a scope fails to produce the desired results.  And
>everytime I use the JTAGICE, I ask myself, "why don't I use this more
>- it works great?".


That doesn't even resemble the question I ask myself every time the #@!$ 
thing crashes, tosses my breakpoints, etc,etc,etc,etc,etc...