From fd9b34aac48ad969b9ef9e4a9d7120ae924cec39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dean Camera <dean@fourwalledcubicle.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:13:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add the formula used to obtain the bootloader start address
 to the Bootloader makefiles to help users compute the correct address for
 each device based on the bootloader section size.

---
 Bootloaders/CDC/makefile | 8 +++++---
 Bootloaders/DFU/makefile | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Bootloaders/CDC/makefile b/Bootloaders/CDC/makefile
index d39d2b21d..cb05e0fbc 100644
--- a/Bootloaders/CDC/makefile
+++ b/Bootloaders/CDC/makefile
@@ -85,9 +85,11 @@ F_CPU = 8000000
 F_CLOCK = $(F_CPU)
 
 
-# Starting byte address of the bootloader, as a byte address. Note that the address given
-# in the AVRStudio fuse programming dialogue uses word addresses, which will have to be
-# doubled to obtain the starting byte address of the bootloader section.
+# Starting byte address of the bootloader, as a byte address - computed via the formula
+#   BOOT_START = ((TOTAL_FLASH_BYTES - BOOTLOADER_SECTION_SIZE_BYTES) * 1024)
+#
+# Note that the bootloader size and start address given in AVRStudio is in words and not
+# bytes, and so will need to be doubled to obtain the byte address needed by AVR-GCC.
 BOOT_START = 0x1E000
 
 
diff --git a/Bootloaders/DFU/makefile b/Bootloaders/DFU/makefile
index e53fca678..dc516c314 100644
--- a/Bootloaders/DFU/makefile
+++ b/Bootloaders/DFU/makefile
@@ -85,9 +85,11 @@ F_CPU = 8000000
 F_CLOCK = $(F_CPU)
 
 
-# Starting byte address of the bootloader, as a byte address. Note that the address given
-# in the AVRStudio fuse programming dialogue uses word addresses, which will have to be
-# doubled to obtain the starting byte address of the bootloader section.
+# Starting byte address of the bootloader, as a byte address - computed via the formula
+#   BOOT_START = ((TOTAL_FLASH_BYTES - BOOTLOADER_SECTION_SIZE_BYTES) * 1024)
+#
+# Note that the bootloader size and start address given in AVRStudio is in words and not
+# bytes, and so will need to be doubled to obtain the byte address needed by AVR-GCC.
 BOOT_START = 0x1E000
 
 
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