Re: [AVaRICE-user] Avarice file formats

[Scott F. <sc...@kl...>]

I would recommend checkin out the SRecord package by Peter Miller. It is
excellent both in terms of supported formats (twenty something at last
count) and operations (allows you to do things like endian correction,
data filtering, moving/copying etc. etc. 
etc.

It also runs on pretty much any platform (Cygwin if not native windoze).

It has saved my bacon on a number of ocasions.

You can find it linked from here:
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/

Scott

p.s. The name SRecord is historical as the first version only supported
the Motorola format. The others have been added over the years.

Nils Kristian Strom wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Theodore A. Roth wrote:
> 
> I am happy to see this solution fall in taste.
> 
> > One thing though. What if bfd is not available on a system? Most gnu
> > programs that use bfd (gdb, gcc, etc) ship with bfd included.
> 
> Hmm. On RedHat, bfd is made available through the binutils binary package. On
> FreeBSD (5) it is not :-(  (I don't have other platforms on hand - these are my
> two development platforms).
> 
> So your question requires a solution - to keep avarice portable to the
> other systems supported today.
> 
> From the top of my head, here's some ideas:
>   1. Include bfd in avarice CVS
>   2. Include bfd in avarice source/binary releases
>   3. Link to bfd from avarice home page / documentation
> 
> I would go for 1 or 2, IMHO the more available the better. But of course
> patches to the bfd library would have to migrate into avarice as well. This is
> not a trivial question.
> 
> I think it's best if you could look into this question.  I will of course
> contribute, but IMHO my knowledge of autoconf and automake is too limited to
> take this task myself.
> 
> I am thinking of creating other patches, noteably verification of programmed
> data, programming/verification of EEPROM, fuses and lock bits.
> 
> This would be an addition that make avarice a complete development platform, no
> other low-level tools or utilities will be required.
> 
> These patches, however, require that the bfd question has been answered.
> 
> Regards,
> Nils Strom
> 
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