Re: [avrdude-dev] DFU FLIP support

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Kirill Levchenko wrote:

> I have some patches that add DFU support using the FLIPv2 protocol
> (AVR4023). This allows some new chips to be programmed without a
> programmer, since they ship with the atmel DFU bootloader
> pre-loaded. Is there interest in adding these to avrdude?

Oh yes, sure!

> How do I contribute these patches?

https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=avrdude

Please make sure to use the SVN version to base your patches against.
There have been a number of changes recently (in particular also to
the config file syntax).

> Also, it would be good to test it more thoroughly; I've only tested
> it on an ATxmega128a4u.

If I'm not mistaken, DFU also ought to work on older MegaAVR devices,
doesn't it?  Unfortunately, I'm afraid I've already been erasing the
loader on all of mine, but I think Dean Camera has a rewritten DFU
bootloader as part of his USB project.
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