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On 12/03/2011 11:47 AM, Bob Paddock wrote:
> 4.3.4 is still the official recommended version.  Jörg  wants people
> to test the 4.6.x stuff.
> I'd skip anything in 4.4 and 4.5.
> Bingo's conical build script is here:
> http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=42631&postdays=0&postorder=asc
> Unless you have a very new part that is not supported, there is not a
> lot of reason to use the newer stuff for the AVR.
>
> Do make sure you are up to date on all of the patches, and using the
> latest version of AVR-LibC.  1.7.0 had all of the delay functions
> broken.
> I document a particularly nasty problem with the XMega here:
> http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2011/02/anatomy-of-race-condition-toyota-vs-avr.html

   Wow, ugh.  I'm currently running avrlibc v1.7.1.  My stuff seems to 
work fine with GCC v4.4.6...the reason I'm on that release is because I 
build all of my cross-compilers from the same build script for 
consistency, for ARM, x86, m68k, PPC, and SPARC, as well as AVR.

   I will see about testing my build script with the GCC 4.6.x branch soon.

>>   Heh.  I'd quit. ;)
>
> I've thought of it.  Even thought of going out on my own, problem is I
> don't know how to answer the question "Where are your customers going
> to come from?".

   Craigslist is a good start.  There are lots of small, non-suitly 
companies who need work done, and they all start there when looking for 
talent.

>> Dave McGuire
>> New Kensington, PA
>
> Thought you where in Florida?  Your only about 70 miles from me now.

   Hey, perhaps we can get together!

   I needed to get out of Florida; I was sick of starving to death due 
to the lack of work, and paying $700/mo power bills.  My fiancee and I 
were able to score a biggish (~14K sq. ft.) commercial building in a 
really fun area just outside of Pittsburgh.  The price was unbelievably 
low, a fraction of what people typically pay for even a mediocre house; 
I will NEVER live in a "house" again.  No space, tiny doorways and 
hallways, no three-phase power...definitely not geek-compatible. 
Commercial buildings "for the win".

   Over time, we'll be constructing our residence in the top floor, 
where I'll also have my office and lab, and downstairs I'll build a 
vintage computing museum in which to show off my goodies.  (older Crays, 
DEC PDP-8/10/11/14 machines, some vintage tube analog computers, etc)

   For now we sleep in a tiny apartment around the corner, and we have 
temporary office and workspace set up in our building.

   From a work standpoint it has been fantastic...after a decade of 
barely scraping by (and getting utilities turned off left and right), I 
landed the best job I've had in fifteen years literally within HOURS of 
actually starting to look.  Pittsburgh has a strange reputation that I 
just don't understand, but it's possibly the most beautiful city I've 
ever seen, and it's a fantastic place for a tech geek to be.

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA