[3dprinter-general] arduino-mighty-1284p

[Bas Wijnen]

Hi,

Some time ago I packaged the arduino-mighty-1284p package, which is
required to make the Melzi work with Arduino.  I noticed some problems
with it, however, and now that I'm cleaning it up, I see there is a lot
to do.

It was including an outdated version of the core for no apparent reason;
no 1248p-specific changes were in there.  I'm removing it and
referencing the original core in board.txt again.

It had a copy of optiboot in it, which is also in the arduino package.
I'm replacing it with a small patch file and a build-dependency on
arduino.  It also included prebuilt hex files; I'm building them as part
of the package build now.

There is also the "standard" bootloader, for which I would like your
opinions.  It is probably also a copy of something standard, although I
didn't quickly see of what.  The standard bootloader is worse than
optiboot: it is slower to boot, slower to upload sketches, and it takes
more space.  I could spend time on getting it properly building (instead
of using the prebuilt hex files), but I feel more like not supporting it
and telling people to use optiboot.  Please let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Bas
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