RE: How to add I2C device disable preamble?

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> rg] On Behalf Of Bob Paddock
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] How to add I2C device disable preamble?
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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:41:56 -0400, Pink Boy <dasfoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The advantage is you don't need a special version of avrdude and
> > you get to maintain shutup_i2c.exe yourself.
> 
> AVRDUDE has already overcome the issues of talking to the PC
> hardware, such as the parallel port on XP.  If I do my own .exe
> I have to reinvent the wheel to get access to the parallel port,
> maybe install a different driver etc.

Avrdude is completely open source. Cut and paste the parts that you need.


> 
> Any idea if AVRDUDE would work with VISTA?  Don't have that
> yet, but I'm sure it will come up with the next PC we buy,
> and will it even have a parallel port...

The issues with vista that I am aware of have to do with spawning/execing a
new process. Avrdude doesn't do this so I would think that it would be
immune from this. However I don't know how it would work with any of the
hardware issues like parallel port or serial port. Hopefully that hasn't
changed much, but y'never know.

Eric