Re: [avrdude-dev] xmega status

[David A. Lyons]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Zoltan Laday wrote:
> AFAIK, there is no support for the xmega parts on the AVRISPmkII.

I can report success programming the ATxmega128A1 over PDI, with an AVRISPmkII, 
from Mac OS X with avrdude 5.6 (CrossPack-AVR-20090415).

The trick was to upgrade the AVRISPmkII firmware once, using AVR Studio (and I 
had to borrow use of a Windows machine to do that).

<http://support.atmel.no/bin/customer?=&action=viewKbEntry&id=683> says:
> JTAGICEmkII, AVRISPmkII and STK600 can be used to Program devices via PDI and 
> JTAGICEmkII to Debug devices via PDI
> The Latest version AVR Studio 4.15 (build 623) has PDI support for AVRISP 
> mkII. 

Cheers,

--Dave