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From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] ftdi ft232r programming howto
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:42:11
Message-Id: 20060703164005.GA2310@osgiliath
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] ftdi ft232r programming howto by andreas.sumper@cnsystems.at
1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:25:30PM +0200, andreas.sumper@×××××××××.at wrote:
2 > Could anybody give me some advice on where to start or did anybody write
3 > some piece of code, which works with such a converter?
4
5 I have recently written a custom driver for a device with such an
6 USB-UART.
7
8 Take a look at /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.[ch] - the
9 programming interface is well documented there. There's also a
10 user-space library for direct communication with the FTDI chips and an
11 utility for programming the EEPROM [1], but neither of them support
12 the FT232R yet.
13
14 Regards,
15 Brix
16
17 [1]: http://www.intra2net.com/de/produkte/opensource/ftdi/
18 --
19 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
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