I wrote (a couple of years ago): > The erase cycle counter, stored in the last 4 EEPROM cells of the > device, might have been a neat idea by its time. However, I think the > days of its usefulness have long since been past. Nobody really cares > about flash wear by normal programming cycles these days (those who do > care about it usually rewrite the flash from within the firmware > itself), the typical flash endurance is much longer than the initial > 1000 cycles the first AVRs have been guaranteeing some 10+ years ago.
I decided to completely remove the feature now. Nobody ever told me they were really using it anymore, and a major new release appears to be a good situation to just drop it. -- cheers, Joerg .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
