I do so little AVR development these days that when I start again, it takes me a short while to get back into the swing of things. So rather than digging out old notes, I've reproduced the main elements here.

Install

To compile AVR C programs on linux you need the avr-gcc toolchain, along with a few other utilities. On Fedora one installs all of the packages required with:

I recently acquired an XZL_studio AX logic analyser from a friend, this is a clone of the USBee-AX device with a much lower price, ~£50. I had previously used this device with the USBee software but always found it to be buggy, infact, it was almost unusable. I tried to get this running on a virtual machine without joy, in the end, I had to install Windows XP on an old machine I had lying around, and even then, I found the software was constantly crashing.

I have recently been playing with bootchart on my desktop and decided to try it out on the Raspberry Pi.

"Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart." http://www.bootchart.org/