gnupic: Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
From:
Tom Schouten ####@####.####
Date:
3 Sep 2008 22:25:15 -0000
Message-Id: <20080903222356.GC8691@zzz.i>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:49:24PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Jean-Daniel Nicoud ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> >>> The Microchip licenses (for the firmware and pk2cmd source) only allow
> >>> PICkit 2 to be used with Microchip product (PIC, EEProms, etc).
> >
> > As I read the Readme of Pickit2, I have the feeling the soft could be
> > completely rewritten and downloaded for different processors. Did you saw a
> > sentence that restricts the use of the hardware?
>
> I do not know of any restricts on the hardware side. However, it would
> be a lot of work to rewrite the firmware and host software.
I didn't look at the scripts in the .dat yet, but if they don't use any
hard-to-port opcodes (like direct access to the SFRs on the PK2) it should
not be so incredibly difficult to reuse the scripts and implement just
what is necessary for a certain range of chips. i'm thinking the USBprog
AVR here.. and thinking (dreaming) it might be an interesting excercise for
a portable Staapl application, targeting PIC18 and AVR).
