On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:37 AM, David Brownell<[email protected]> 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 frames to 125 us-based
>> > microframes.
>> >
>>
>> Not sure here. The blocking I/O will render the benefits of high speed
>> USB much less effective.
>>
>> David Brownell is the real USB expert in the list. He may answer better,
>> at least on the Linux side since he is one of the leading Linux usb
>> developers.
>
> I responded to that a while back.  The round-trip latency may
> well go down with Linux-USB host side drivers.
>

This makes me think there is a solution for performance on the
Linux side, a kernel driver which supports the D2XX similar
interface will solve quite some issues. Maybe libftdi+libusb
will not be necessary in that case. It seems that there are
some work on that front in the Linux usb mailing list.


-- 
Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com
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