On 25 February 2016 at 11:55, Nicholas Flowers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > One thing I'm puzzled by is why the Arduino guys didn't do it this way (or > analogously) to begin with. If you have an onboard chip that can > reset/program, why mess around with bootloaders and timeouts? > > There were previous Arduino models that didn't have that option. Boards with just real serial ports, and also boards with just FTDI USB-to-serial chips. They've taken the backwards compatibility option for their later hardware, probably sensible. I suspect most arduino users will prefer the familiar, compatible platform rather than a second programming mechanism to understand. _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
