The name memtype can mean different things in the AVRDUDE src.
Mostly it means the name string of the memory, eg, "flash" or
"eeprom"; sometimes it is a character designating a memory, eg, 'E'
for "eeprom"; and yet at other times it means a programmer-defined
memory type, eg, MTYPE_BOOT_FLASH. The occurrences of memtype in
the code have now neen renamed appropriately.
The RDY LED is set once the programmer is initialised and switched
off when AVRDUDE exits. During reading, writing or erasing the target
the PGM LED flashes with around 2.5 Hz, whilst the VFY LED comes on
during -U verification of the uploaded contents. Errors are indicated
with the ERR LED.
Assuming AVRDUDE got to the point where LEDs are accessible and the RDY
LED was switched on then, on exit, AVRDUDE will leave the LEDs in the
following states:
| PGM | VFY | ERR | Semantics |
| --- | --- | --- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| off | off | off | OK: all tasks done without errors |
| off | off | on | Some error not related to read/write/erase |
| on | off | on | Read/write/erase error |
| off | on | on | Verification error but no read/write/erase error |
| on | on | on | Read/write/erase error and verification error |
Other combinations should not show after exit.
Now that terminal commands can create files, some of the checks before
executing the -T/-U operations need to be relaxed to avoid false errors.
The command below is perfectly fine, because the file to be read from in
the -U step will be created earlier.
$ rm -f /tmp/load.eep
$ avrdude -qq -cdryrun -pm328p \
-T 'w ee 0 "avrdude"; save ee 0 8 /tmp/load.eep:h' \
-U eeprom:w:/tmp/load.eep
Think breakpoints for a series of memory operations. In this example
$ avrdude -t -U eeprom:r:dopp.eep:i -t -U eeprom:w:dopp.eep
the first -U makes a backup of the EEPROM that the second terminal can
then arbitrarily change because the second -U restores the EEPROM content.
* Print parms output to stdout
* Flush terminal writes and other minor changes
* Prepare terminal for periodic calls to programmer to reset bootloader WDT
* Only show progress reports for memories > 32 bytes or on -vv
* Freeze progress bar on serious error
* Allow cached r/w byte routines to be used in pgm->read_byte and pgm->write_byte
* Change avrdude_message(MSG_XYZ, ...) to msg_xyz(...)
* Define and use pmsg_xyz(...) instead of msg_xyz("%s: ...", progname, ...)
* Review and change avrdude_message() levels
- Introduce new levels warning, error and ext_error
- Distribute info level to info, warning, error, ext_error
- Assign levels (more) consistently
- Unify grammar, punctuation and style of messages
* Use imsg_xyz() to print indented messages
* Show function name in errors and warnings on -v
* Reduce effective verbosity level by number of -q above one
This commit replaces fixed-string buffers in PROGRAMMER, AVRPART and AVRMEM
that are dealt with by the parser and grammar. Now, string assignments are
always to const char *, ie, these are read-only strings with arbitrary
length.
config_gram.y now only needs to consider one type of string assignment.
This commit also
- Replaces the simple linear-search cache_string() function with faster
hashed cache_string(). Either way, the returned value is likely to be
shared, so should never be free()'d.
- Duplicates hvupdi_support list in pgm_dup() and frees it in pgm_free()
- Adds const qualifier to some function args in avrpart.c and pgm.c
- Hardens some functions against being called with NULL pointers
- Ensures _new() and _dup() functions for parts, programmers and memory
return a suitable memory. Out of memory triggers exit in one of three
functions, cfg_malloc(), cfg_realloc() and cfg_strdup(); there is
rarely anything useful that AVRDUDE or, for that matter, any
application compiled against libavrdude can do once you run out of
memory as AVRDUDE/libavrdude rely heavily on allocation of memory.
- Replace strdup(s) with cfg_strdup(funname, s) that exits on out of mem
- Replace malloc(n) with cfg_malloc(funname, n) that exits on out of mem
- Change multiline string scanning in lexer.l to avoid core dump
- Remove global variables string_buf and string_bug_ptr
- Ensure reading strings unescapes strings C-Style
- Ensure writing strings escapes strings C-Style again
Commit looks longer than needed as unescape() and auxiliary functions needed
to be moved from term.c (not in libavrdude) to config.c (in libavrdude).
This commit checks -U update requests for
- Typos in memory names
- Whether the files can be written or read
- Automatic format detection if necessary
before opening the programmer. This to reduce the chances of the
programming failing midway through.
Minor additional changes:
- Give strerror() system info when files are not read/writeable
- Lift the auto detection message from MSG_INFO to MSG_NOTICE
- Provide fileio_fmt_autodetect() in the AVRDUDE library
- Rename fmtstr() in the AVRDUDE library to fileio_fmtstr() to
avoid name clashes when an application links with it
Example:
$ avrdude -U - -U typo:r:.:h -U eeprom:w:testin:r -p ... -c ...
avrdude: can't auto detect file format for stdin/out, specify explicitly
avrdude: unknown memory type typo
avrdude: file . is not writeable (not a regular or character file?)
avrdude: file testin is not readable. No such file or directory
The check for typos in -U memory names against a list of known memory names
now happens after the config files have been read, so newly declared memory
names can be considered. This commit also weakens the check against existence
of a known memory: it is now sufficent for a name to pass when it could be
the initial string of any known memory of any part. Any -U memory that cannot
possibly be matched up with a known memory is considered a typo and leads to
an exit before the programmer is opened.
This to protect users from typos that leave a device partially programmed.
When every -U memory name might be matching one of the known memories, the
programming is attempted. If the part to be programmed turns out not to have
a particular -U memory, AVRDUDE warns the user and skips this -U update.
This to support unifying interfaces that call AVRDUDE with potentially more
memories than the actual part has (eg, efuse on ATmega8).
$ avrdude -qp m8 -c ... -U efuse:w:0xff:m && echo OK
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: skipping -U efuse:... as memory not defined for part ATmega8
avrdude done. Thank you.
OK
Counting the number of bytes written to a memory and/or verified is not
trivial owing to potential holes in the input file and to potential trailing
0xff bytes in flash memory that are not written per default (but see -A). The
new function memstats(), which is best called just after an input file has
been read into mem->buf/mem->tags, computes the right number of bytes written
and allows easy computation of the number of bytes verified.
This commit also changes the strategy for the default verification after
writing to a chip memory, so that the input file only needs reading once thus
enabling successful verification of stdin input files.
Other, minor changes:
- Improving the grammar of AVRDUDE output, eg, 1 byte written instead of
1 bytes written
- Better description of the input file structure in terms of its sections,
the interval it spans, the number of pages, the number of padding bytes
in pages, and the number of actually cut off trailing 0xff bytes for flash
- Printing <stdin> or <stdout> instead of - in the -U routines
- Option -V no longer needs to be specified before option -U in order to work
As an aside this commit also provides useful helper functions for printing
plural(), inname(), outname() and interval() all of which return strings fit
for printing.
$ avrdude -qp ATmega2560 -c usbtiny -U blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9801 (probably m2560)
avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: input file blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: reading input file blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex for flash
with 1346 bytes in 4 sections within [0, 0x3106d]
using 7 pages and 446 pad bytes
avrdude: writing 1346 bytes flash ...
avrdude: 1346 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against blink-mega2560+lext-test.hex
avrdude: 1346 bytes of flash verified
avrdude done. Thank you.
$ avrdude -qp ATmega328P -c usb-bub-ii -U sketch-ending-in-ff.hex
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: input file sketch-ending-in-ff.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: reading input file sketch-ending-in-ff.hex for flash
with 2160 bytes in 1 section within [0, 0x888]
using 17 pages and 16 pad bytes, cutting off 25 trailing 0xff bytes
avrdude: writing 2160 bytes flash ...
avrdude: 2160 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against sketch-ending-in-ff.hex
avrdude: 2185 bytes of flash verified
avrdude done. Thank you.
$ echo "Hello, world..." | avrdude -qp ATmega328P -c ... -U eeprom:w:-:r
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: reading input file <stdin> for eeprom
avrdude: writing 16 bytes eeprom ...
avrdude: 16 bytes of eeprom written
avrdude: verifying eeprom memory against <stdin>
avrdude: 16 bytes of eeprom verified
avrdude done. Thank you.
The checks used to be in update.c, but as they are related to
the intended file operation, they are better placed in fileio.c.
The checks affected are to refuse 'm' on output (file write),
and 'd', 'h', 'o', and 'b' formats on input (file read).
The file format specifiers 'h', 'd', 'o', and 'b' are only valid for
outputting data. Reject them with a proper error message when
attempting to use them for input.
The new file type I is essentially Intel HEX that, on download, inserts
comments next to data records with the resolved effective address and an
ASCII dump of that same record. On upload the `I` format is permissive
with respect to check sum errors, eg, after manipulated an Intel HEX file
for debugging.
