http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=554
end of flash memory where they can be read (at least in theory) by
device programmers, hex-file examination, or application programs.
This is done by putting the version number in a separate section
(".version"), and using linker/objcopy magic to locate that section as
appropriate for the target chip. (See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/avr-gcc-list/2011-02/msg00016.html
for some discussion on the details.)
Start the version at 4.1 (the last "packaged" version of optiboot was
called version 3, so the "top of source" would be 4.0, and adding the
version number makes 4.1)
Refactor LDSECTION in the Makefile to LDSECTIONS so that multiple
section start addresses can be defined.
Change the _isp makefile definitions to make the bootloader section
readable (but not writable) by the application section. (This would
need to be done elsewhere as well to handle all bootloader programming
techniques. Notably Arduino's boards.txt
Note that this change does not change the "code" portion of optiboot
at all. The only diffs in the .hex files are the added version word
at the end of flash memory.
Allows building within the Arduino Source tree, and within the Arduino
IDE tree, as well as using CrossPack on Mac.
Adds README.TXT to track arduino-specific changes (and documents the
new build options.)
This addresses Arduino issue:
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=487
And optiboot issue
http://code.google.com/p/optiboot/issues/detail?id=1
(which can be thought of as a subset of the Arduno issue.)
Note that the binaries produced after these Makefile changes (using any
of the compile environments) are identical to those produced by the
crosspack-20100115 environment on a Mac.
* Updating ATmega168 bootloader to work with standard distributions of avrdude
(responding to signature requests made with the universal SPI command) and
correctly store EEPROM data. Thanks to ladyada.
* Changing compilation process to generate .eep file and allow for use of
EEMEM directive (although not yet uploading EEPROM data).
WestfW
David A. Mellis