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This directory contains the Optiboot small bootloader for AVR
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microcontrollers, somewhat modified specifically for the Arduino
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environment.
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Optiboot is more fully described here: http://code.google.com/p/optiboot/
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and is the work of Peter Knight (aka Cathedrow), building on work of Jason P
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Kyle, Spiff, and Ladyada.  Arduino-specific modification are by Bill
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Westfield (aka WestfW)
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Arduino-specific issues are tracked as part of the Arduino project
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at http://code.google.com/p/arduino
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Building optiboot for Arduino.
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Production builds of optiboot for Arduino are done on a Mac in "unix mode"
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using CrossPack-AVR-20100115.  CrossPack tracks WINAVR (for windows), which
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is just a package of avr-gcc and related utilities, so similar builds should
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work on Windows or Linux systems.
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One of the Arduino-specific changes is modifications to the makefile to
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allow building optiboot using only the tools installed as part of the
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Arduino environment, or the Arduino source development tree.  All three
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build procedures should yield identical binaries (.hex files) (although
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this may change if compiler versions drift apart between CrossPack and
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the Arduino IDE.)
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Building Optiboot in the Arduino IDE Install.
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Work in the .../hardware/arduino/bootloaders/optiboot/ and use the
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"omake <targets>" command, which just generates a command that uses
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the arduino-included "make" utility with a command like:
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    make OS=windows ENV=arduino <targets>
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or  make OS=macosx ENV=arduino <targets>
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On windows, this assumes you're using the windows command shell.  If
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you're using a cygwin or mingw shell, or have one of those in your
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path, the build will probably break due to slash vs backslash issues.
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On a Mac, if you have the developer tools installed, you can use the
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Apple-supplied version of make.
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The makefile uses relative paths ("../../../tools/" and such) to find
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the programs it needs, so you need to work in the existing optiboot
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directory (or something created at the same "level") for it to work.
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Building Optiboot in the Arduino Source Development Install.
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In this case, there is no special shell script, and you're assumed to
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have "make" installed somewhere in your path.
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Build the Arduino source ("ant build") to unpack the tools into the
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expected directory.
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Work in Arduino/hardware/arduino/bootloaders/optiboot and use
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    make OS=windows ENV=arduinodev <targets>
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or  make OS=macosx ENV=arduinodev <targets>
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Programming Chips Using the _isp Targets
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The CPU targets have corresponding ISP targets that will actuall
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program the bootloader into a chip. "atmega328_isp" for the atmega328,
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for example.  These will set the fuses and lock bits as appropriate as
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well as uploading the bootloader code.
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The makefiles default to using a USB programmer, but you can use
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a serial programmer like ArduinoISP by changing the appropriate
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variables when you invoke make:
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   make ISPTOOL=stk500v1 ISPPORT=/dev/tty.usbserial-A20e1eAN  \
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        ISPSPEED=-b19200 atmega328_isp
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The "atmega8_isp" target does not currently work, because the mega8
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doesn't have the "extended" fuse that the generic ISP target wants to
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pass on to avrdude.  You'll need to run avrdude manually.
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Standard Targets
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I've reduced the pre-built and source-version-controlled targets
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(.hex and .lst files included in the git repository) to just the
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three basic 16MHz targets: atmega8, atmega16, atmega328.