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[LeeTalbert]

Help me understand the OMLx toolchain for AVR

Until today I have used 3 packages to build binaries for AVR microcontrollers plus a few other supporting packages such as a debugger, simulator, and programmer. These 3 packages being avr-binutils, avr-libc, and avr-gcc. The upstream sources for these packages has varied over time as at one point the best device support was obtained by getting the source from Atmel, but since the Microchip buyout they have become increasingly unfriendly to open source and binutils, gcc, and gdb are best cross b…