Title: Odyssey - PIC programming software
Author: Mark Aikens <marka@desert.cx>


* Motivation:

  I use Linux all the time and I like playing with PIC microcontrollers. The
  gputils package is awesome but the problem is that there's no good
  PIC programming software for Linux. I've seen picprg, prog84, picprog, pp,
  and ponyprog and either they don't have support for many devices or the code
  is not well designed so that extending it would be a hack.

  This program has the potential to program any serially programmed device
  and I would like to be able to program any PIC in existence (under Linux
  or any other free OS, of course).


* Supported Hardware in this release

  PIC Programmers:
    EPIC Programmer by microEngineering Labs
    Any parallel port programmer (See doc/setup.txt)

  PIC Devices:
    Tested:
      PIC16F84, PIC16C84, PIC16C76, PIC16F74, PIC16C765, PIC16F877, PIC18F252,
      PIC18F452, PIC12F629, PIC12F675, PIC16F628, PIC18F4550

    Untested but should work:
      PIC16C61, PIC16C62, PIC16C62A, PIC16C62B, PIC16C63, PIC16C63A,
        PIC16C64, PIC16C64A, PIC16C65, PIC16C65A, PIC16C65B, PIC16C66,
        PIC16C67, PIC16C71, PIC16C72, PIC16C72A, PIC16C73, PIC16C73A,
        PIC16C73B, PIC16C74, PIC16C74A, PIC16C74B, PIC16C77, PIC16C620,
        PIC16C620A, PIC16C621, PIC16C621A, PIC16C622, PIC16C622A, PIC16C710,
        PIC16C711, PIC16C712, PIC16C716, PIC16C745, PIC16C773, PIC16C774,
        PIC16C923, PIC16C924,
      PIC16F83, PIC16F84A, PIC16F870, PIC16F871, PIC16F872, PIC16F873,
        PIC16F874, PIC16F876,
      PIC16F73, PIC16F76, PIC16F77,
      PIC18F248, PIC18F258, PIC18F442, PIC18F448, PIC18F458,
      PIC16F627, PIC16LF627, PIC16LF628


* Installation:

  Odyssey uses the standard autoconf/automake setup:
    ./configure
    make
    make install


* Setting up:

  See doc/setup.txt for more information.