> -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > rg] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] [task #5093] Add support for > reading ELF files. > > As Eric Weddington wrote: > > Alas, each AVR might have a different default fuse, so we cannot > simply use 0xff as the default value.
Sure. > > > > The "universal hex file" is the resulting ELF file from the > > > > toolchain. > > > > I've heard voices here that not everybody would be happy > about this. > > > I don't think it's so much fat and bloated as it's a binary format > > Still, it carries a lot of baggage along with it: > > % ls -l foo.elf *hex > -rwxr-xr-x 1 j staff 5115 May 8 21:49 foo.elf* > -rw-r--r-- 1 j staff 4297 May 8 21:48 largedemo.hex > -rw-r--r-- 1 j staff 30 May 8 21:48 largedemo_eeprom.hex > > The .elf file on top has *only* the `alloc' sections in it. Really? The debug info has been stripped from it too? > Sure, it's not *that* fat. But users have their habits, and often > have been using load files like intel hex for years. Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean we need to keep doing it that way, especially if we can offer a compelling alternative. Eric _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
