On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > "If you need to use the same adapter with other applications that may > require another driver, a solution for Windows Vista and above is to > activate the IgnoreHWSerNum registry setting for the USB device." > > With the release of libusb-1.0.21, the other option may be to use > usbdk Windows backend. usbdk is an open source driver (Apache > 2.0License). > > UsbDk documentation: > 1. Short presentation: > http://www.spice-space.org/docs/usbdk/UsbDk_at_a_Glance.pdf > 2. SDM: > http://www.spice-space.org/docs/usbdk/UsbDk_Software_Development_Manual.pdf > 3. UsbDk architecture specification (part of source tree): > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/usbdk/tree/ARCHITECTURE > > The latest UsbDk source code available at: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/usbdk > > It is kind of good thing that you can use usbdk and keep the original vendor > driver so that OpenOCD and applications using the vendor driver will both > work.
On the other hand, I am not saying to update the README.Windows file for now since the number of users of usbdk may not be that many yet and usbdk backend for libusb may probably need some time to be as stable as WinUSB. -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
