Hi!
This thread is meant as a clarification.
Peter and Andreas seem to already put "deprecated, will be deleted" mark
on ft2232.c code, but is that really the plan? I don't remember any
discussion about deprecating and deleting that code, so the whole
situation is confusing (probably not only to me, as there are many
changes [not only SWD] in gerrit that touch ft2232.c). This argument is
used against changes in gerrit so this should be cleared, possibly
stated in the code.
So what's the plan here? Is ft2232.c going to be deleted? Is it going to
be kept but no further changes for this code will be accepted?
It must be stated that ft2232.c has at least two important advantages
over ftdi.c:
1. it can use ftd2xx, which for some people IS important, whatever we
think about that - I actually haven't compared the speed of ftdi.c with
ft2232.c @ ftd2xx lib, that could be interesting, but I haven't used
this lib for OpenOCD since the infamous discussion.
2. all interfaces' configs embedded in it are tested (or - at lest -
majority of them), as opposed to ftdi.c which only has partial coverage
(I estimate it to be about 1/3)
If we consider ftdi.c "stable" (I do) we could think about a way to
making it "default", but there's no such concept in OpenOCD... The only
thing that comes to my mind is moving config files using "old" ft2232.c
to some subdir ("deprecated"), possibly adding a warning about them
being deprecated (directly to ft2232.c or to each config), and moving
configs using "new" ftdi.c one level "up".
I hope this issue will be cleared as I just don't think it's possible to
deprecate ft2232.c any time soon, but a trend to think of it as a "dead
end" is spreading...
Thanks in advance!
4\/3!!
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