[Open-graphics] Use FTDI USB devices for the PCI-analyzer ?

[Peter TB Brett]

On Friday 05 January 2007 11:35, Dieter wrote:

> I haven't checked, but I suspect that the FTDI devices have sufficient
> docs.
>

I fought this battle with FTDI a couple of years ago.  The neat features you 
get on Windows are not (and will never be) available in the Linux drivers, 
because the interface specs are "critical intellectual property" and thus 
they could *never* let filthy dirty open source hippies look at them.

In addition, the hardware I used was horrifically buggy -- the actual 
performance only very loosely matched the timing specifications in the 
datasheet... as well as one of the IO modes not working, and when I called 
them up to ask what was going on they said, "Oh, sorry, that doesn't work. 
Use a different mode instead."  Thus requiring large amounts of bodging on 
the PCB I paid £5000 for...

Peter

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