Error on Flashing Pro Micro - address out of range

limingjie commented 5 years ago

Hi Ruiqimao,

Thank you for your keyboard firmware builder, it is an excellent tool! It greatly helps our newbies on building QMK firmware without the necessity of setting up QMK environment. I am using it for most of new keyboards testing before writing my own QMK code.

Issue Description

Recently, a friend of mine found that the firmware generated by the builder does not work on Pro Micro, I did a test and found there is an address out of range error.

Potential Solution

I've experienced the same issue on my own QMK installation. It took me quite some time to figure out that, avr-gcc v8 does not work well for Pro Micro, while avr-gcc v7 works perfectly with the same code. The problem seems related to the bootloader, because avr-gcc v8 works well on GH60 board.

Could you please help investigate if it is the same issue? We are really appreciate!

Flashing Log

*** QMK Toolbox (http://qmk.fm/toolbox)
    Supporting following bootloaders:
     - DFU (Atmel, LUFA) via dfu-programmer (http://dfu-programmer.github.io/)
     - Caterina (Arduino, Pro Micro) via avrdude (http://nongnu.org/avrdude/)
     - Halfkay (Teensy, Ergodox EZ) via teensy_loader_cli (https://pjrc.com/teensy/loader_cli.html)
     - STM32 (ARM) via dfu-util (http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/)
     - Kiibohd (ARM) via dfu-util (http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/)
*** Caterina device connected
*** Attempting to flash, please don't remove device
    Found port: /dev/cu.usbmodem145410
>>> avrdude -p atmega32u4 -c avr109 -U flash:w:/Users/mingjie/Downloads/gh60.hex:i -P /dev/cu.usbmodem145410 -C avrdude.conf
    avrdude: warning at avrdude.conf:14976: part atmega32u4 overwrites previous definition avrdude.conf:11487.

    Connecting to programmer: .
    Found programmer: Id = "CATERIN"; type = S
        Software Version = 1.0; No Hardware Version given.
    Programmer supports auto addr increment.
    Programmer supports buffered memory access with buffersize=128 bytes.

    Programmer supports the following devices:
        Device code: 0x44

    avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

    Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

    avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9587
    avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
             To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
    avrdude: erasing chip
    avrdude: reading input file "/Users/mingjie/Downloads/gh60.hex"
    avrdude: ERROR: address 0x80024b out of range at line 1149 of /Users/mingjie/Downloads/gh60.hex
    avrdude: read from file '/Users/mingjie/Downloads/gh60.hex' failed

    avrdude done.  Thank you.

Thank you! Mingjie

PancakeLegend commented 5 years ago

This appears to be a return of this issue, closed on Sept 20. Am experiencing the same thing using AVRDudess. Confirmed that old hex files still flash, new hex files produce 'out of range' error.

robbi-blechdose commented 5 years ago

Can confirm, .hex file is also 48KB so it definetely will not fit.

drashna commented 5 years ago

I'm pretty certain that this is because it's using avr-gcc 8.2.0, which is known to be broken. 8.3 (whenever it comes out) should work, though.

ruiqimao commented 5 years ago

Reverted to avr-gcc 7.3. Will keep an eye out for 8.3.

limingjie commented 5 years ago

Thank you so much @ruiqimao ! Confirmed the firmware is working on Pro Micro.

ruiqimao / qmkbuilder

Error on Flashing Pro Micro - address out of range #44