Re: Mac OS X and AVR programming

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Brian Dean wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:58:40AM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
> > "Jeff Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering if there is anybody out there that is using Mac OS X
> > > to do AVR programming.
> >
> > You might want to ask Brian Dean about it (the author of avrdude).
>
> Hah - I just saw this, catching up on my mail.  Yes, I'm using Mac OS
> X on my G5 and doing AVR work.  I made a few minor tweaks to AVRDUDE
> to support the Mac, so it should compile out of the box.  Also, GCC
> for the AVR target built and installed fine.  Same with binutils and
> avr-libc.  I can't think of any gotchas.
>
> The main thing with AVRDUDE is that parallel port programmers aren't
> going to work.  There are some USB<->parallel converters that are
> available, but none I found had drivers that worked on the Mac.
>
> I'm currently using an STK500 connected via a USB<->serial converter
> made by Keyspan.  The Keyspan driver seems very nice and creates a
> /dev/cu.xxx device that supports all the usual POSIX API, i.e., open,
> close, read, write, etc.  This makes it look like a regular old Unix
> serial port, and it works fine and required no programming changes in
> AVRDUDE to support it.
>
> I suspect other USB<->serial converters work similarly, but I cannot
> vouch for them since I haven't used any other than the Keyspan.
>
> The only tool I haven't yet tried to build is AVARICE.  I'll get to
> that at some point, but I haven't had a pressing need to use my
> JTAGICE recently so I just haven't gotten around to it.

People have used used avarice on Mac OSX, if it doesn't work out of the
box, I'd like to hear about it. :-)

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