[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question is: Should I get a mkI or mkII?
That depends on whether you're willing to fork out the money for an mkII one or not. I don't think buying an original mkI would make sense anymore at all (if they are still available), but of course, there are a number of cheap clones including DIY ones. For the ATmega128, there's not much difference between both, except the mkII protocol is a bit safer in handling. With the mkII one, you're open for new MCUs you might want to use in future, while the mkI appears to be a dead end now, i.e. I don't think Atmel will provide firmware upgrades that make it support more MCUs, and the XML files for the new devices don't mention mkI support either. > I guess the question is really: What do the Linux tools work with? With both ones now. For downloading code, it's already just the opposite currently, avrdude 5.0 supports the JTAG ICE mkII but not yet the mkI (though I just committed the code for that to CVS). For avarice, there's no released version yet that supports the mkII one, but you can download a CVS snapshot, and it's my intention to roll an avarice 2.4 release in the near future. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
