gnupic@linuxhacker.org

Hi all, I just subscribed.

I've been working on some modifications to picp, mainly to support 
pic18fxx2, as pointed out by Antonio TodoBom, which is sponsoring this 
effort.

I'm close to declaring some of these changes as stable, Antonio is 
already testing most of the work already implemented.

As soon as it shows some results, I'll be posting patches against the 
original picp.

To the concerns of forking the project, I don't plan to, since I planned 
into making these changes as to add more resources to the original picp, 
and both Antonio and I would be glad of the changes would appear on the 
original program.

Speaking in terms of programming, I would like to perform several 
changes to picp, in order to make it more easy to maintain, and to 
ressemble more closely to the traditional command line behaviour and the 
source code indentation of most gnu tools, which eventually could be 
easier to do by rewriting it almost from scratch, indeed, but currently 
I lack the time to do it (and even if I supposedly did not, I don't 
think it would necessarily be a fork, since I would prefer to coordinate 
with picp authors. They did a great job on reverse engineering the 
protocol, and deserve all credit for that).

But back to the subject, here is what is working so far (on pic18f252):

reading program memory, eeprom, id locations, configuration bits;
writing to program memory.

Soon I'll finish preliminary support for writing to configuration bits, 
id locations and eeprom (both from the command line and from the hex 
files, where applicable). That should take a few days yet. As long as 
testing seems ok, the patch will be posted

Thank you all,

Alexandre (AKA Alex).