On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andreas Fritiofson wrote:
>> > Andreas, Vivien is eager to do some work on cleaning up the ft2232
>> > driver, but I recall that you had also begun on that. What's the
>> > status?
>>
>> The new driver is more or less ready and waiting to get pushed for
>> review.
>
> Great news!
>
>
>> Main thing missing is the handling of different layouts. It's
>> not clear to me what's the best way to handle it. I really want the
>> layouts specified in Tcl instead of C, but I'm not really fluent in
>> that language or Jim's integration with OpenOCD. I'm about to ask for
>> help with that on the list. Maybe I'll push the driver first to get
>> some context to the question and widespread testing.
>
> I think this is a good idea!
>

Oh, heck, I'll just Cc the list, if someone understands what I'm
after, feel free to share your thoughts, otherwise I'll post a more
specific request tomorrow when I'm not so tired.

>
>> Looking at Vivien's first mail it seems like the intention perhaps is
>> to auto-select the ft2232 layout based on the vid/pid of the connected
>> devices. In that case I have some, possibly conflicting, ideas about a
>> more general mechanism along that line.
>
> If I understood correctly, her primary interest is to also make
> FT4232H-based adapters work in OpenOCD.

Don't they work today? I don't have one so I don't know. I think it should work.

> I'm very eager to look at your driver. On a side note, hopefully
> you're not using Mauro Gamba's code for libusb-1.0, because that
> will get reverted. (It's incomplete and issues pointed out in review
> have not been addressed.) I'll wait with that until I see your new
> driver though.

I'm not quite sure what you mean so I'm pretty sure I'm not using it.
I have used the existing configure.ac stuff for detecting libusb-1.0,
though, and noticed there are flaws there.

/Andreas

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