Re: [avr-gcc-list] ElfCoff Error parsing symbol

[Glenn]

All,

I attended an Atmel AVR seminar reciently. The Marketing Manager for AVR
product line gave the presentation (his name was Ojay; didn't catch his last
name).

Anyway, they are promoting/recommending 3 toolsets packages:
1. High performance: STK500, ICE50, IAR, avrstudio; $5500US
2. Low-cost: STK500, ICE200/JTAGICE, ICC or CV, avrstudio; $577US or $377US
3. Nearly-free: STK500, avrstudio, GCC $79US

Cheers! Atmel is promoting GCC! (But, brace yourselves for the onslaught of
questions....)
He even went so far to say the quality of the code was pretty good.

BTW:
When asked, he said that the AT86RF401 (AVR w/ OOK RF modem) and the
AT43USB320A (AVR w/ USB HUB+FN) are a different group @ Atmel so he had no info
about them. Obviousely, the FPSLIC (AVR+FPGA) is a different group (it runs @
25MHz)! There will be a STK500 plug-on for that product.
The AVR w/ 100-segment LCD controller (Mega169) was news to me.

Regards,

Glenn.

--- Larry Barello <address@hidden> wrote:
> Last year the Atmel folks assured me that they were working on
> supporting GCC - the results is Astudio 4.0 and the ability to "plug"
> in modules.
> 
> This year, they assure me that their S/W guys are working on the
> module directly supporting Dwarf/ELF, but of course, who knows when.
> I assume they have the spec.  I don't know if they would appreciate
> help.  The way to get started is to contact them at address@hidden and
> ask to get hooked into the Studio developers (there are four full time
> S/W developers working on it).
> 
> Astudio works well with IAR, ICC and CV products.  Those products
> either are intimately tied with the early adoption of AVR or did the
> work, on their own, to produce COFF file output.  I don't see any
> sinister commercial preferences, just prioritizing their efforts where
> the biggest return is.  Atmel is perfectly aware of the excellent
> quality of GCC - but it isn't user friendly for Windows folks and the
> vast bulk of their users are using windows and windows based tools.
> Perhaps if we all took a few minutes to request ELF support they might
> be a bit more responsive?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Iztok Zupet" <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 15:33, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
> > > >   The same happened to me when I tried elfcoff. Guess we'l have
> to wait
> > > > for another release of elfcoff or accidentaly someone might
> become
> > > > intersted in writing coff-avr bfd description file for gnu
> binutils...
> > >
> > > Would be even better if Atmel becomes interested in adding ELF
> support
> > > to AVR Studio.  Conversion between formats often loses
> information, so
> > > native ELF support should solve most of the current problems.
> > >
> > > ELF is an open standard, not specific to GCC or Linux, but also
> used
> > > on most of the modern Unices.  I'm not sure where the specs are,
> but
> > > I'm sure they must be publicly available somewhere...
> > >
> > > Marek
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> >  It seems to me that the Atmel company preferes commercial (not
> open)
> > standards for their products (AVR JTAG interface for instance) and
> that they
> > would prefer to seek commercial SW partnership then open source. So
> far, I
> > haven't found any up to date description of avr-coff format
> specialities.
> 
> 
> avr-gcc-list at http://avr1.org



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