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avreal v1.28r6 (Sun 2011-01-09) has been released.

• ATmega325A and ATmega329A are added.
• Aliases for “A”-versions are added:

      ATmega165A, ATmega645A, ATmega6450A
      ATmega169A, ATmega329PA, ATmega649A, ATmega6490A

• avreal/Linux64, FT2232* and FT4232H-based adapters:
  Library named libftd2xx.so.0 instead of previously used libftd2xx.so is loaded for FTDI chips support.
  This allows installation both old (required for avreal) and new library versions, for example libftd2xx.so.0.4.16 and libftd2xx.so.1.0.0.
  Read more about libftd2xx.so.1.0.0 problems in 64-bit Linux.
• -k/-K switch now has two forms with different avreal stages execution order.

The FTDI’s gift is very interesting.

Keeping the “See Figure 1.” motto in their minds, they have changed data types when switching over from library libftd2xx.so versions 0.4.x to libftd2xx.so.1.0.0. The gift affects on 64-bit libraries only. There is no problem for 32-bit ones.

ftd2xx library was born in Windows and contains WinAPI-like UART support functions FT_W32_ххх(). That’s why WinAPI standard types DWORD, BYTE and so on are used in the library. For Linux version of the library they have added WinTypes.h header file with typedefs for these types. In general, it seems to be a logical step, but…

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At the beginning of december FTDI gave us a small gift — a new version 1.0.0 of libftd2xx.so library. But avreal/Linux 64 bit doesn’t work with the library. I will check avreal code later. I have placed previous version 0.4.16 of libftd2xx.so with which avreal works properly, on the download page.

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