Re: [avrdude-dev] chip_erase and cycle_count cleanup

[Jan-Hinnerk Reichert]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 19:46, Brian Dean wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:31:36PM +0100, Jan-Hinnerk Reichert 
wrote:
> > as discussed earlier, I would like to have an
> > avr_chip_erase() in "avr.c" which does
> > - avr_get_cycle()
> > - pgm->chip_erase()
> > - avr_set_cycle()
>
> Yep - sounds good.
>
> > BTW: Perhaps it would also be good to implement erase as an
> > "update".
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this.

I mean enqueue the erase operation in "updates" and have it done in 
do_op(). And perhaps make it selectable by "-U", later.

This way you can do things like Read EEPROM, Erase, Write Flash, 
Rewrite EEPROM in one call.

It also aids in seperating the "hot phase" (where you actually change 
things on the chip) from the parsing/initialising-part ;-)

/Jan-Hinnerk