>> I would have thought some enterprising type would have passed
>> the download
>> code through a disassembler by now and worked all this out,
>> after all the
>> destination chip is a well known one ;)))
>
>That is not enough. You can reverse-engineer what the current firmware
>requires, but that is not sufficient to create PC support for future
>firmware. Remember that the ICD2 is in some sense just hardware with a
>bootloader, the firmware is downloaded 'on demand'.

Yeah, but by disassembling the bit that gets downloaded, you can work out
the protocol for the family that module represents. I suspect the protocol
to the host computer is basically the same for all modules, just some of the
bells and whistles bits need to be determined for all modules.

So a collaborative project with different people working on a module each
...

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