Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-25 Thread Nico Coesel
>On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Nico Coesel wrote: >>> >>>I *know* there are hardware vendors out there that >>>are aching to use OpenOCD together with closed source target support, >>>and they *would* find any tiny loophole and throw money at lawyers to >>>exploit it. >> >> Sorry to hijack thi

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-25 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> What I state here is not lack of respect to the license but what I ask > for is to interpret GPL as it was meant, not in some kind of tendentious > way. You know, if we *all* were reasonble and would intrepret things in the best meaning, then we wouldn't need a license at all. The license is th

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-25 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Nico Coesel wrote: >> >>I *know* there are hardware vendors out there that >>are aching to use OpenOCD together with closed source target support, >>and they *would* find any tiny loophole and throw money at lawyers to >>exploit it. > > Sorry to hijack this message.

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-25 Thread Nico Coesel
> >I *know* there are hardware vendors out there that >are aching to use OpenOCD together with closed source target support, >and they *would* find any tiny loophole and throw money at lawyers to >exploit it. Sorry to hijack this message. The whole situation made me wonder about MySQL several tim

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-25 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Hi Pavel, welcome back it's been a while! I hope that you'll stick around to submit some more good patches. You've contributed lots of nice stuff in the past! GPL stops closed source target & interface for OpenOCD. That's one of the *main* reasons I got involved with OpenOCD in the first place.

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-25 Thread Pavel Chromy
Hello list! Wookey napsal(a): > +++ Freddie Chopin [2009-06-24 16:56 +0200]: >> Important Qestion - Is OpenOCD meant for users to use, or just to be >> "100%-GPL-at-any-cost"? Good question! GPL is to bring free software to users, to support evolution of software, this is what was meant when th

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-24 Thread Wookey
+++ Freddie Chopin [2009-06-24 16:56 +0200]: > David Brownell pisze: > > Under the GPL. From the very first public release, that has been > > part of it. You download it, and the GPL is there. That brings > > along with it certain rules. > > GPL. GPL. GPL... How about Users, Users, Users? Again

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-24 Thread Freddie Chopin
David Brownell pisze: > "Users" that have only invective to "contribute" aren't > helping the community. You have clearly mistaken me for someone else, so I'll just end this particular thread. 4\/3!! ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-develop

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-24 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Freddie Chopin wrote: > > Notice the complete disregard of technical arguments here. > > > > That's a good sign that the person making the argument has no real > > contribution to make, beyond invective. > > That's probably because I'm a USER, not a contributor. Quite s

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 16:56 +0200, Freddie Chopin wrote: > GPL. GPL. GPL... How about Users, Users, Users? Again - The Most > Important Qestion - Is OpenOCD meant for users to use, or just to be > "100%-GPL-at-any-cost"? > > > You're the ONLY one advocating a "we-don't-care-for-X" mindset. > >

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-24 Thread Freddie Chopin
David Brownell pisze: > Notice the complete disregard of technical arguments here. > > That's a good sign that the person making the argument has no real > contribution to make, beyond invective. That's probably because I'm a USER, not a contributor. Quite simple. > Under the GPL. From the very

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Orin Eman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Duane Ellis >> wrote: >> >> > All is not rosy and perfect, "WinUSB" would require an INF file that >> > *points* to the driver - much like the work that

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Orin Eman
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Duane Ellis > wrote: > > > All is not rosy and perfect, "WinUSB" would require an INF file that > > *points* to the driver - much like the work that Freddy is working > > towards with a universal libusb inf fi

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Freddie Chopin wrote: > About the flame wars - since you are a developer I see those twice a > month, along with some people departing the team. What is your great > contribution to the code? Moving the scripts around in the tree, > documentation updates, changing a==12;

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Zach Welch
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:21 +0200, Nico Coesel wrote: [snip] > And here is the exact reason why the JTAG vendors are not going to put > effort into OpenOCD. A marriage works both ways! The wife wants to cheat on me. What, I'm suppose to just be a cuckold? > I know I promised to contribute some g

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Zach Welch
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:35 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009, Zach Welch wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:59 +0200, Dominic wrote: > > > > > > Øyvind mentioned the idea of wrapping the JTAG API in TCP/IP. Aside > > > from performance implications I think this would require

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Nico Coesel [2009-06-23 22:21 +0200]: >I know I promised to contribute some go-along-the-road driver development >documentation. The task of creating a driver for an FPGA JTAG accellerator >is on my plate. However at the present I'm not sure if I'm willing to >contribute any mor

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Nico Coesel
> > There is the ideal world and the real world. >> - only 10% use both windows and Linux >> - about 95% use FTd2xx driver (on windows or linux). >> >> Before talking too much about GPL issue ... bla bla bla ... we should >> ask us some basic questions related to the success of OpenOCD project

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Photo Leecher
> The software is not linked against those libraries, nor does it need  > them to run. > > Regards, > Anders   The same can be done with OpenOCD and FTD2XX. ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.b

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Hi Freddie, you have posted good patches in the past and we are looking forward to many more. You're a smart guy. It is my firm belief that you will see and experience things in the open source community where you will learn to appreciate the advantages of GPL. I'm convinced that you will eventua

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Freddie Chopin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto Learn what this fantastic rule gave us, and stop talking about "community", because you are talking for a few people (5? 10?), and not for all of us. Now I see GPL and your attitude towards it, "the community" and whole OpenOCD vs. FTDI case to be as

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Zach Welch
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:49 +0200, Laurent Gauch wrote: > > > > >>/ Øyvind mentioned the idea of wrapping the JTAG API in TCP/IP. Aside > > />>/ from performance implications I think this would require some > > />>/ significant development efforts with little immediate benefits. Even > > />>/ worse

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Xiaofan Chen
2009/6/23 Rick Altherr : > FWIW, on the OS X side of the world, libftdi works along with the FTDI VCP > driver.  On my Luminary (...I mean, TI) 6965 demo board, port A is used by > OpenOCD and port B is a TTY device.  I've successfully used this to program > via a serial bootloader and debug via JT

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Thomas A. Moulton wrote: >> All is not rosy and perfect, "WinUSB" would require an INF file that >> *points* to the driver - much like the work that Freddy is working >> towards with a universal libusb inf file >> > > This is a VERY interesting suggestion. > > WunUS

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 15:30 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: > All - I believe - I am not sure - that the primary benefit of > "libft2xxx" is as follows: > > (a) It is measurably faster. > > That just requires "work" to make it faster. > > (b) It works on more platforms, ie: Win7, WinVista, be

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Rick Altherr
AFAIK the current open source FT2232 drivers/libs lack dual-port'ness support (I would be more than glad if I am mistaken here). Maybe they will in some future, but I do need to do my job now, and I do with libft2xx quite successfully. FWIW, on the OS X side of the world, libftdi works alon

[Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Laurent Gauch
> > >>/ Øyvind mentioned the idea of wrapping the JTAG API in TCP/IP. Aside > />>/ from performance implications I think this would require some > />>/ significant development efforts with little immediate benefits. Even > />>/ worse, it would encourage other JTAG interface vendors to implement > /

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Xiaofan Chen
2009/6/23 Audrius Urmanavičius : > Also, since I have working build environment for OpenOCD, it makes no > problem now to build OpenOCD myself, I do not need prebuilt binary. I > just afraid that OpenOCD would drop libft2xx support altogether to > settle the dust down. I hope not. At least 64bit W

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Audrius Urmanavičius
2009/6/23 Xiaofan Chen : > 2009/6/23 Audrius Urmanavičius : >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: >>> All - I believe - I am not sure - that the primary benefit of >>> "libft2xxx" is as follows: >>> >>> (a)   It is measurably faster. >>> >>>    That just requires "work" to make it

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-23 Thread Xiaofan Chen
2009/6/23 Audrius Urmanavičius : > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: >> All - I believe - I am not sure - that the primary benefit of >> "libft2xxx" is as follows: >> >> (a)   It is measurably faster. >> >>    That just requires "work" to make it faster. >> >> (b)   It works on m

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Audrius Urmanavičius
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: > All - I believe - I am not sure - that the primary benefit of > "libft2xxx" is as follows: > > (a)   It is measurably faster. > >    That just requires "work" to make it faster. > > (b)   It works on more platforms, ie: Win7, WinVista, because

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> Today's OpenOCD handles both services (and more). > If you split out "Smart JTAG", would OpenOCD be > the split-out part ... or the target level service? > > I'd lean towards the latter. My motivation for a low level JTAG over TCP/IP is that it would enable OpenOCD maintainers to run OpenOCD on

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:37 AM, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2009, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> > As an aside, has anyone had the opportunity to try OpenOCD with an >> > FT2232H-based dongle? I believe high-speed USB should almost eliminate >> > latency effects due to going from 1 ms-based

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, David Brownell wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009, Duane Ellis wrote: >> (d) There is another choice -  "WinUSB" >> >>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa476426.aspx >> >> As I understand, it is a a multi-(windoze)-platform solution that >> exposes the USB

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 22 June 2009, Duane Ellis wrote: > (d) There is another choice -  "WinUSB" > >     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa476426.aspx > > As I understand, it is a a multi-(windoze)-platform solution that > exposes the USB device, functionally in the same manor and style as > "libus

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 22 June 2009, Harald Kipp wrote: > We either need a written GPL exception explicitly granted by all > contributors As I pointed out when I raised the issue. In fact I even went and provided a list of 50 developers who would need to be agreeing to add such an exception. > or a clear s

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > As an aside, has anyone had the opportunity to try OpenOCD with an > > FT2232H-based dongle? I believe high-speed USB should almost eliminate > > latency effects due to going from 1 ms-based frames to 125 us-based > > microframes. > > > > Not sure he

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 22 June 2009, Zach Welch wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:59 +0200, Dominic wrote: > > > > Øyvind mentioned the idea of wrapping the JTAG API in TCP/IP. Aside > > from performance implications I think this would require some > > significant development efforts with little immediate benef

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 22 June 2009, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > My favourite is to introduce a serialized protocol for JTAG that > can work over TCP/IP, pipes, even fn calls... Such a thing would be useful for a more functional USB interface to JTAG adapters. Consider some microcontroller using a (high speed!) US

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Duane Ellis wrote: > All - I believe - I am not sure - that the primary benefit of > "libft2xxx" is as follows: > > (a)   It is measurably faster. > >    That just requires "work" to make it faster. > > (b)   It works on more platforms, ie: Win7, WinVista, because d

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Nico Coesel
>> Øyvind mentioned the idea of wrapping the JTAG API in TCP/IP. Aside >> from performance implications I think this would require some >> significant development efforts with little immediate benefits. Even >> worse, it would encourage other JTAG interface vendors to implement >> their JTAG interf

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Duane Ellis
All - I believe - I am not sure - that the primary benefit of "libft2xxx" is as follows: (a) It is measurably faster. That just requires "work" to make it faster. (b) It works on more platforms, ie: Win7, WinVista, because drivers exist for those platforms. This is tough/hard, nob

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> Øyvind mentioned the idea of wrapping the JTAG API in TCP/IP. Aside from > performance implications I think this would require some significant > development efforts with little immediate benefits. Even worse, it would > encourage other JTAG interface vendors to implement their JTAG interface > l

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Zach Welch
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:59 +0200, Dominic wrote: > Hi List, > > > > there has been some speculation about my original intents so I thought > I might chime in here. > > > > I'm all in favor of enforcing the GPL where it achieves anything for > the user. In case of FTD2XX I decided to go the p

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Dominic
Hi List, there has been some speculation about my original intents so I thought I might chime in here. I'm all in favor of enforcing the GPL where it achieves anything for the user. In case of FTD2XX I decided to go the pragmatic way instead of the idealist's way. Why do we want to link again

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Zach Welch
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:19 +0200, Harald Kipp wrote: > Øyvind Harboe wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Michael > > Schwingen wrote: > >> Harald Kipp wrote: > >>> This is easier to implement than what I suggested: Building an > >>> intermediate LGPL'ed DLL which links OpenOCD with FTD2XX.

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Harald Kipp
David Brownell wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009, Harald Kipp wrote: >> 1. Someone creates a dummy FTD2XX library, published under LGPL. This >> library does not contain any FTDI-code, just dummies which contain the >> same entry names, but always return errors. > > This is a transparent attempt to

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 22 June 2009, Harald Kipp wrote: > 1. Someone creates a dummy FTD2XX library, published under LGPL. This > library does not contain any FTDI-code, just dummies which contain the > same entry names, but always return errors. This is a transparent attempt to circumvent the GPL terms. Among

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Harald Kipp wrote: > Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Michael >> Schwingen wrote: >>> Harald Kipp wrote: This is easier to implement than what I suggested: Building an intermediate LGPL'ed DLL which links OpenOCD with FTD2XX. >

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Harald Kipp
Øyvind Harboe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Michael > Schwingen wrote: >> Harald Kipp wrote: >>> This is easier to implement than what I suggested: Building an >>> intermediate LGPL'ed DLL which links OpenOCD with FTD2XX. >>> >> I don't see how that solves the GPL problem: as soon as th

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Schwingen wrote: > Øyvind Harboe wrote: >>> As far as I see the situationn, the only clean possibility (except >>> changing the license) is to have the FTD2XX library in a separate >>> process, not linked into openocd's address space, which means separating

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Michael Schwingen
Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> As far as I see the situationn, the only clean possibility (except >> changing the license) is to have the FTD2XX library in a separate >> process, not linked into openocd's address space, which means separating >> the functionality and communicating by sockets or similar me

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Michael Schwingen wrote: > Harald Kipp wrote: >> This is easier to implement than what I suggested: Building an >> intermediate LGPL'ed DLL which links OpenOCD with FTD2XX. >> > I don't see how that solves the GPL problem: as soon as the FTD2XX > library is linked i

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Michael Schwingen
Harald Kipp wrote: > This is easier to implement than what I suggested: Building an > intermediate LGPL'ed DLL which links OpenOCD with FTD2XX. > I don't see how that solves the GPL problem: as soon as the FTD2XX library is linked into openocd, it is not OK to distribute - having an intermedia

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Harald Kipp
Orin Eman wrote: > All someone need do is produce a DLL that is called FTD2XX and implements > (or plans to implement) all the interfaces that OpenOCD uses and release it > under LGPL. The interfaces can all return failure for now. There would be > no problem whatsoever releasing a binary linked

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Harald Kipp
Duane Ellis wrote: > We as a group, perhaps may not like this fact, but it is what it is. I > can not change that original exception, nor can anyone else. It was part > of the deal when each of us started to contribute to OpenOCD. Good argument against the repeated phrase "I wouldn't have contr

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Xiaofan Chen
2009/6/22 Nico Coesel : > As far as I can understand the problem is that OpenOCD > cannot be distributed as a Windows binary linked against a > USB device driver which is non-GPL code. This makes me wonder > how the executable is to be run on Windows. Somewhere the code > must be linked against Mic

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Nico Coesel
[Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options > > 2009/6/22 Zach Welch : > > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:20 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > >> On Sunday 21 June 2009, Audrius Urmanavičius wrote: > >> > I can also second Xiaofan, who offers distribution o

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-22 Thread Michael Schwingen
Freddie Chopin wrote: > >> You are spreading FUD. Please. Stop. Now. >> > > Why? You - on the other hand - are all "that violates GPL, period", so > you're spreading "GPL-or-die". Please. Stop. Now. Any realistic solution > is "violating the GPL" according to you, that's a pure "No, b

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Anders Montonen wrote: >> libusb-win32's development branch (libusb1) has the WinUSB backend. It >> is not working yet. It is also not API compatible with libusb 1.0. >> That is an unfortunate situation. > > Is libusb-win32 still being developed? The SVN repository

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Anders Montonen
On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:40, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > You may want to use reply to all. This is not as convenient but it > is the way > OpenOCD mailing list is running. Thanks. That was my intention, but I forgot to change the to-address. Sorry about that. > libusb-win32's development branch (libu

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
2009/6/22 Orin Eman : > All someone need do is produce a DLL that is called FTD2XX and implements > (or plans to implement) all the interfaces that OpenOCD uses and release it > under LGPL.  The interfaces can all return failure for now.  There would be > no problem whatsoever releasing a binary l

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
You may want to use reply to all. This is not as convenient but it is the way OpenOCD mailing list is running. Thanks. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Anders Montonen wrote: > On Jun 22, 2009, at 6:15, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:02 AM, David Brownell >> wrote: >>> >>>  * T

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Orin Eman
2009/6/21 Zach Welch > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:20 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > On Sunday 21 June 2009, Audrius Urmanavičius wrote: > > > I can also second Xiaofan, who offers distribution of .zip file with > > > Cygwin building environment set up, probably with shell script that > > > does `

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > What do you think about this summary? Ooooh ... *MUCH* better! Thank you! No comments other than that, for now. Except for: > d) Improve libusb-win32, get the driver digital signed to solve the > 64bit Windows issues. Some HW vendors may be able

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:02 AM, David Brownell wrote: >  * The thread about a "Universal" INF file seemed much more >   productive.  Sure, more adapters need to be covered, and >   the library binaries that get bundled into the MSI file >   will need to be the right versions (libusb, libftdi). > >

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Duane Ellis wrote: > I would like to see this exception *documented* so that it does not > expand, or continue beyond this exact situation. The way to "document" this is with a change to the license, signed on to by *everyone* holding any copyright on the code. Any previo

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
2009/6/22 Zach Welch : > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:20 -0700, David Brownell wrote: >> On Sunday 21 June 2009, Audrius Urmanavičius wrote: >> > I can also second Xiaofan, who offers distribution of .zip file with >> > Cygwin building environment set up, probably with shell script that >> > does `./bo

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Magnus Lundin wrote: > >   > Yes the licence is  GPL, and there are no exceptions stated, unfortunatley. > > It is definitly possible to add an exception to allow linking to non GPL > libraries and still remain GPL, but it is not possible to force derived > GPL works to

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Freddie Chopin wrote: > > You are spreading FUD.   Please.  Stop.  Now. > > Why? Because it's an annoying and counterproductive waste-of-time. And because the developers aren't particularly keen on your encouragment that folk should violate the licensing on the software t

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Zach Welch
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:33 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: > zach> I am afraid that your intent will not matter even one iota, in a > court of law. > > This is not, and was not ever my intent, I am speaking of what I see as > the original authors "GPL+[undocumented]-exception" intention. > > zach> I

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Magnus Lundin
Zach Welch wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 17:38 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: > >> zach> Please DO NOT try to cheat the GPL license. You do not understand how >> zach> far I am willing to take these matters, and I believe any form of >> binary >> zach> distribution to be a violation: a DLL wrapper,

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Duane Ellis
zach> I am afraid that your intent will not matter even one iota, in a court of law. This is not, and was not ever my intent, I am speaking of what I see as the original authors "GPL+[undocumented]-exception" intention. zach> If you want to make exceptions, then they do not apply to the new co

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Zach Welch
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 17:38 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: > zach> Please DO NOT try to cheat the GPL license. You do not understand how > zach> far I am willing to take these matters, and I believe any form of > binary > zach> distribution to be a violation: a DLL wrapper, a binary patch, > anything!

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Freddie Chopin
Zach Welch pisze: > If all of OpenOCD's users chipped in, I bet each > of you would pay less than any commercial alternative. You forgot something [; I don't need to pay for anything, nor does anyone else. I can build my own executable with ftd2xx. If you will drop that support, I'll just stay w

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Duane Ellis
zach> Please DO NOT try to cheat the GPL license. You do not understand how zach> far I am willing to take these matters, and I believe any form of binary zach> distribution to be a violation: a DLL wrapper, a binary patch, anything! Let me ask this another way. I believe the question is some wh

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Zach Welch
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 23:15 +0200, Freddie Chopin wrote: > Zach Welch pisze: > > Fix the problems with libusb and libfdti. Period. > > This is starting to get ridiculous... As I already wrote somewhere - I > really would like to, but... I cannot. I'm not a PC programmer, in fact > I'm a newbie

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Freddie Chopin
Zach Welch pisze: > Fix the problems with libusb and libfdti. Period. This is starting to get ridiculous... As I already wrote somewhere - I really would like to, but... I cannot. I'm not a PC programmer, in fact I'm a newbie in embedded world too, so - sorry, I won't fix libftdi and libusb, b

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Zach Welch
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:20 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2009, Audrius Urmanavičius wrote: > > I can also second Xiaofan, who offers distribution of .zip file with > > Cygwin building environment set up, probably with shell script that > > does `./bootstrap`, `./configure --with

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Zach Welch
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 11:28 +0200, Freddie Chopin wrote: > As no satisfying solution has been decided I will try to summarise the > options I think are fine for Windows users. Please - put away your > "linux >> windows" attitude aside for a moment and do keep in mind three > things before procee

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Audrius Urmanavičius wrote: > I can also second Xiaofan, who offers distribution of .zip file with > Cygwin building environment set up, probably with shell script that > does `./bootstrap`, `./configure --with-ftd2xx-blahblah` and `make` > there, so that Windows users with

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Freddie Chopin wrote: > Should we take silence as an agreement? Of course not. It was posted maybe twelve hours ago, but you got impatient after only seven. Plus, there's not really anything to be said except that both of your "options" violate the licensing. At this poi

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Audrius Urmanavičius
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Michael Fischer wrote: > Hello List, > > No response, no windows user here which need FTD2XX support? I am Windows user, and I do need FTD2xx support, unless GPL-compatible alternatives allows dual inteface (I use Olimex ARM-USB-OCD and I appreciate it having seri

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > Maybe you can create a new poll there for the FTD2XX support. > I think the Windows users will need the FTD2XX support. It is > not that easy to get OpenOCD+libusb-win32+libftdi working under > Windows after all. To repeat: anyone wanting D2XX support

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Rick Altherr
On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Freddie Chopin wrote: > Should we take silence as an agreement? > Of course not. > That's pretty interesting - so many posts about such insignificant > cases > like whitespaces or type-names, so little posts about such significant > case as ftd2xx... > Person

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Freddie Chopin wrote: > Should we take silence as an agreement? No. (Wasn't this summary posted yesterday?) This debate is still alive, give the community time to consider the options and come up with ideas. I haven't followed this debate terribly closely, I'm ju

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Freddie Chopin
Should we take silence as an agreement? That's pretty interesting - so many posts about such insignificant cases like whitespaces or type-names, so little posts about such significant case as ftd2xx... 4\/3!! ___ Openocd-development mailing list Open

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Freddie Chopin wrote: > So in reality I see only two solutions: > > 1. A ftd2xx.dll wrapper library, which would be published under GPL with > exception for ftd2xx.dll. Such library would dynamically link ftd2xx and > - as an open-source solution - could be linked w

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Michael Fischer wrote: > Hello List, > > No response, no windows user here which need FTD2XX support? > I saw you have a poll here. So far 100% users (2 out of 2) are Windows users. The samples may be too small now. But I believe there are more Windows users than o

Re: [Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 15:00 +0200, Michael Fischer wrote: > Hello List, > > No response, no windows user here which need FTD2XX support? > > Best regards, > > Michael Well 2 points come to mind... 1 - as pointed out before, most of us windows users are interested in plug and play 2 - this is a

[Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Fischer
Hello List, No response, no windows user here which need FTD2XX support? Best regards, Michael ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development

[Openocd-development] FT2232 & Windows - summary of options

2009-06-21 Thread Freddie Chopin
As no satisfying solution has been decided I will try to summarise the options I think are fine for Windows users. Please - put away your "linux >> windows" attitude aside for a moment and do keep in mind three things before proceeding: 1. Windows users usually have no knowledgle of linux and l