On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gerd v. Egidy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jie, > >> I updated the following patch >> >> http://developer.intra2net.com/mailarchive/html/libftdi/2009/msg00254.html >> >> to the current HEAD of libftdi git tree. > > thank you very much for updating this. > My pleasure. :-)
>> It still only supports >> libusb-1.0. But we have libusb-1.0 for Windows XP and later now... > > I have just seen Petes work on that. Very good to know that things are moving > forward on that front now. > > But I think we should still not rush the move to libusb-1.0 as that would cut > off some people from new developments and fixes of libftdi. There are still > some things for the H-chips to be done, e.g. the higher baudrates. So the > question is how we can make the transition as smooth as possible. > > Two ideas come to my mind: > > a) implement a glue layer between libftdi and libusb which allows to use > either libusb-0.1 (sync only) or libusb-1.0 (sync and async). The downside is > that this is a lot of work and some additional overhead. > Yeah. The difference between 0.1 and 1.0 is big. > b) divide libftdi development in two branches, new stuff is done based on > libusb-1.0. We can still backport new features to the current branch. > > When we want to take the road to b) I think the best way to start would be to > create a git branch to make the code more easy to access and improve. > Yeah, I like this idea. > Jie, I can offer you a separate git repository on our server to develop this > further and give it a wider audience. I you are interested, contact me > privately. > I will contact in a few days. Thanks. >> I know you also have a modified version of libftdi. But I don't know >> which one is better. Could you take a look? > > I have seen Pete posted his code to libusb-devel, but haven't taken a look at > it yet. Maybe there are some good ideas worth picking up from. > Yeah, I will take a look. >> Btw, it seems it's hard to extract a patch from libftdi mailing list >> archive if it has already been inlined, since it only provides html >> page. If it could provide an original email page, it will be much >> better. > > I prefer to have the important stuff in a git repo. Thats much more easy to > work with. > Yes. Regards, Jie -- libftdi - see http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi for details. To unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
