avrprog

This program is intended to be used to program Atmel AVR chips using the
computer parallel (printer) port and a simple and unexpensive hardware.
It uses Atmel AVR serial protocol to program the chips.
Schematics of the hardware can be found in avrprog.png file.

Important information:
As the software uses 'ioperm', 'inb' and 'outb' functions to access the
hardware, it only works if used by the 'root' user.
If you want it to be available to all users, execute the following commands,
changing executable_file by the path/filename of avrprog:
   # chown root.root executable_file
   # chmod ug+s executable_file
Warning: doing this could be a security hole.

We hope this software and hardware will help you.

If your AVR chip is not supported, you found some bug, have some comments
or whatever, please send us an e-mail.

Current version only tested in Intel386 architectures.
Not sure if it runs in other architectures. Probably not due to direct
hardware access used in the program.

You can get this program releases or last develop version at:
  http://avrprog.sourceforge.net
This program is also available at Debian GNU/Linux:
  http://packages.debian.org/avrprog
If you don't want to build the hardware by yourself, contact the authors;
we can point you to someone that can sell it to you.

Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Jos Roberto B. de A. Monteiro <jrm@autsens.com>
                        and Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@autsens.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
