It seems to me that one of the biggest complain about PIC
development under Linux is that ICD2 does not really work
under Linux. I am not so sure if Microchip will open the
protocol though. LPLAB and PICLAB so far are the two only
efforts to make it work under Linux. However I did read in
Microchip Forum that one guy has done a MACOS X port for
the serial ICD2 (of course only programming part).

AVR on Linux is much easier with AVR-GCC, avrdude, JTAG-ICE
and other tools. It is a pity that Atmel is really a bad company to
work with for smaller business customers. :(

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas [mailto:aazhyd@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:21 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] Linux GPUTILS, programming with ICD2, and config
flags

for your information there is my (alpha) IDE Piclab
(http://piclab.sf.net) that uses LPLAB code and can program with via
the serial port... It might work better than LPLAB.

Writing with LPLAB regularly failed for me as it was trying to use the
fast mode (apparently serial ports on Linux cannot be configured
properly for high speed mode).

Nicolas

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