Before, the UMSELn1 bit was being to set to 1, putting the UART into a reserved mode. Now, we only set the high (0x80) bit to 1 for the ATmega8, which is needed to access UCSRnC (whose i/o address is shared with UBRRH).
Also, no longer bitwise-or the new config with the existing register value, because we're actually configuring all the settings in the register. (We're not using UCPOL, but it's supposed to be 0 in asynchronous mode.)
Mostly useful for Leonardo - simple way to test whether the port is actually opened by an application and ready to receive data. For Serial objects attached to real UARTs always returns true.
write(), print(), println() now return size_t (and don't use negative values to signal errors).
Print adds writeError() for checking for write errors, clearWriteError() to reset the flag to false, and a protected setWriteError() for signalling errors.
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=598
Because UBBR is only 12 bits, we were overflowing it at 300 baud because of the use of the U2X bit. Now we turn off U2X if it would yield a UBBR value that would overflow.
Note that this breaks 300 baud communication with the computer on the Uno and Mega 2560 because the 8U2 USB-serial firmware has this same bug (and previously they cancelled each other out). Since, however, it seems more likely that people will need to use 300 baud to communicate with other (legacy) hardware than with the computer, I'm making this change. Issue for 8U2 firmware bug: http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=542http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=522
Now Serial.write() places characters in the transmit buffer, and the data register empty interrupt reads and transmit them. Based loosely on the implementation here: ftp://wookey.org.uk/arduino.
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=262
- moving back to multple cores per platform
- using target instead of platform
- moving per-board and per-programmer preferences out of Preferences.java and into a new Target class
- adding a new "target" preference
- support for platform:value values in board preferences for bootloader path and core
- XXX: need to support platform:value syntax for board upload.using preferences.
Compilation still has problems (Thread error on success, and can't handle non-pde files in a sketch).
Modified the Mac OS X make.sh to copy the hardware, avr tools, and example over.
Removing some of the antlr stuff.
Disabling the Commander (command-line execution) for now.
Added Library, LibraryManager, and Target.
Added support for prefixed preferences (e.g. for boards and programmers).
David A. Mellis
Alarus
Zach Eveland