On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:31 PM Anthony J. Bentley <anthony@anjbe.name> wrote:
> The FTDI people took a page from libusb and released newer versions of
> libftdi as libftdi1. No files conflict, so libftdi and libftdi1 can be
> installed side-by-side. libftdi1 also lists fewer supported chips than
> the old library, which might be why they made it separate.
>
> libFTDI is an open source library to talk to FTDI chips: FT232BM, FT245BM,
> FT2232C, FT2232D, FT245R, FT232H and FT230X including the popular bitbang
> mode. The library is linked with programs in userspace, no kernel driver
> required.
>
> This is needed for an upcoming sigrok update.
>
> ok?
Benoit pointed out that this fails to build if the old libftdi is
installed (the baudrate test program picks up the wrong ftdi.h). This
tarball adds a patch to fix that.
--
Anthony J. Bentley
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