john1993:
thanks. me and the 'freaks' dont get along so well. some of those guys can get pretty nasty. i sometimes browse because there are helpful individuals hiding below the surface there but hesitate to even sign in. you wouldnt happen to have a link to that discussion?also in your opinion is tom carpenters uart 1 arrangement becoming more of a standard because of this?
http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=107115&highlight=1284p
People building or using mega1284p in the arduino platform are not a huge population so can't say if using UART1 for the bootloader is a 'standard' or not, just one solution if one is building a new design, or as I said the simple cap/resistor seems to be effective to continue to use uart0 for the bootloader.
Lefty