On 10/11/07, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to remove all the functionality except the bootloader
> function.
> There are two ways to do this.
>
> If this is a success, I will then modify this code to a console
> mode. Eventually the idea is to get a console version of
> PICKit 2 host application. These two steps will be much more
> difficult. I will give myself half a year or more to do this. Do
> not laugh at me...

Actually there is another way to get a console version
of PICkit 2 bootloader application under Windows. It is already
done by Jeff Post (pk2) and Mark Rages (pyk) with libusb.
pk2/pyk are meant for Linux but they are also okay under
Windows with libusb-win32. However it is a hassle to switch
from the native HID driver to libusb-win32 device driver.
So the other way is to write a replacement for libusb using
the native Windows HID API which is quite well documented.
I need to search for a Python wrapper for the native HID API.
But HID API wrapper for GCC under Windows is available
from AVR-USB project (not so complete) or I can modify
from the Borland C++ 6 code from the original PICKit 2
V1.x PC application.
http://www.obdev.at/products/avrusb/index.html

This might be a easier route if I only want to get the
console version of bootloader done.


Xiaofan
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