2009/6/26 Pavel Chromy <chr...@asix.cz>: > Hello Maciej, > > Maciej Grela napsal(a): >> >> A friend of mine pointed me to the threads concerning >> GPL/windows/building/libftdi/libusb/libd2xx. After reading all this an >> idea came to my head - what if we implement our own GPL/LGPL version >> of libd2xx.dll ? > > This is also an option, but there are problems mainly in maintainance of > compatibility - these days there is more than just a single version of the > chip while FTDI keeps compatible API - I am not sure whether the > compatibility is maintained in the driver or the DLL but I experienced > a situation after driver update that different versions of driver and DLL > are not necessarily compatible. > > >> From my investigation it seems, that the driver does all the hard >> work, the DLL itself just calls some ioctls. > > However, this is completely undocumented. >
I can try to reverse engineer the library and produce the documentation about this interface if people will want to use it in openocd. The compatibility issue you mentioned would be likely the most painful part of maintaining such documentation/library though. Br, Maciej Grela _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
