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[Amforth-devel] ATmega1280 Arduino Mega

[Andy K. <an...@ak...>]

I am just attempting to sort out the .asm and .frt files for the Arduino 
Mega (atmega1280).

Looking into core/devices there is'nt a pair of files for this device 
already. Looking at the instructions it sugests copying an existing pair 
and modifying them.

When I open up the pair for the atmega644 a comment in the top claims 
that they were generated from an xml file somewhere.

Looking at the AVR toolchain there are device description xml files there.

Do these have what I would need and if so how do I auto-generate the 
.asm and .frt files from them ??

Cheers

Andy Kirby

Re: [Amforth-devel] ATmega1280 Arduino Mega

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

Andy Kirby wrote:
> Do these have what I would need and if so how do I auto-generate the 
> .asm and .frt files from them ??
>   

I use the xml files located in the Partdescription directory from the
AVR studio
to generate the frt and asm files. amforth has the tool pd2amforth, that
takes every xml file in the current directory and tries to interpret it as
a partdescription (hence the pd) file. But be warned: there are many
dependencies
for various non-standard perl libraries... (my ubuntu box can install
them all
with apt-get from the ubuntu repositories.)

The generated files need some more work to be usable, they do not
work out-of-the-box. It only a helper tool....

good luck

Matthias