[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Re: Dorkboard Newbie Redux

[dave madden]

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 03:46 -0400, Donald Delmar Davis
<ddelmardavis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bring it down to the meeting and I will help you get a working  
> toolchain up and running an point you to who's door to kick in when  
> things don't work.

Rats, I went to the Lucky Lab but didn't see anybody.  Should've checked
the website; I guess you were all at Backspace.  (OTOH, I have a cold
and shouldn't have been out at all, so maybe it worked out for the
best.)

I went home and improved my SPI programmer (instead of getting some
rest).  And I wrote a simple AVR linker script.  So now I can compile,
link, and download reasonably efficiently on Linux.

I also played with the fuse bits a little, but very carefully, so I
don't brick my chip.  Does the Dorkboard work OK with the 16MHz
resonator in divide-by-1 clock mode, at 3.3V?  I was afraid to try it,
although it seems to be OK with the 8MHz internal RC clock at
divide-by-1.  All that really happens so far, though, is my LED blinks
faster than I can count. :-)

> It would be really nice to get a couple of people looking at getting a
> linux based toolchain that would release as an official package that
> was in line with Winavrs release cycle.

Well, I have the essential tools (gcc-4.4.0, binutils-2.19) but I don't
use a frou-frou IDE, so I can't help with that.  (Real men use emacs!)

Anybody who wants to know how to build a cross GCC on Linux, just ask.
It's not hard, but it's a little tedious.

d.