Has anyone tried programming AVR microcontrollers with Mandriva?
When I look in rpm.pbone.net, I see packages called avr-gcc for other distros (Fedora, RedHat):But this package doesn't seem to be available for Mandriva.

All I can find for Mandriva is one called sdcc which doesn't seem to do quite the same thing. Any idea why avr-gcc isn't packaged for Mandriva?
Might it be worth trying a Fedora/RedHat rpm with Mandriva or would I have to compile it from source?

To my poor knowledge avr-gcc is embedded in the kontrollerlab IDE.
Is the latter available for Mandriva? Personally, I do not know and cannot check ATM...

Hey, that's cool, thanks for the link!
Unfortunately I can't find that for Mandriva either (only Suse or Fedora) so the same problem applies - try an rpm built for another system or try to build from source, which is better?
It's also not at all obvious from the website whether the kontrollerlab includes avr-gcc or not - it says it uses it, but I can't find anything obvious in the package contents or in the source tar.

Here's something you might find useful:

http://mr337.thecoderblogs.com/archives/7

Thanks Steve, great link!

At first I thought these things sit on top of the gcc suite, so I could skip the binutils and gcc steps (I've already got them installed via rpm). Then I would just need to compile avr-libc and avrdude and I thought I'd be set. kontrollerlab is already compiled ok and runs.

Alas, I can't compile avr-lib because it needs an avr-compatible compiler (ie, avr-gcc). So it seems I do indeed need to compile both binutils and gcc in their avr forms. Sigh.

I had a quick look in Debian to see what's there and they're all in the repositories, gcc-avr, binutils-avr and avrdude. No kontrollerlab but perhaps for starters I'll try doing it from Debian just to see whether it works or not.

Update:
I tried again with Mandriva, and I got kontrollerlab and binutils compiled ok, but the compile of gcc for avr borked and I couldn't figure out what the problem was, so that stumped me for the rest of the chain.

Then I tried it in Debian and it all seems to work fine - I installed avr-gcc, avr-binutils, avr-libc and avrdude. I got as far as compiling the C into a .hex file, which seemed to work ok - obviously I won't know for sure until I've uploaded some recompiled code into the chip. But certainly a boatload easier using precompiled packages!

Fun stuff!

Update: (in case anyone's interested)
Using Debian everything works perfectly, I can use avrdude to read from and write to the memory of the chip, using KHexEdit to edit the binary files. This is via a (homemade) parallel port cable to an attiny2313.
Plus I can use avr-gcc and the other bits to make a .hex file from the C source (actually just call 'make') and use avrdude to write that generated .hex file to the chip.

So I can do it with Debian, it's just a shame these packages aren't available in Mandriva!