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| 2 | libftdi version 1.0 |
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| 4 | |
| 5 | libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's UART/FIFO chips |
| 6 | including the popular bitbang mode. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The following chips are supported: |
| 9 | - FT4232H / FT2232H |
| 10 | - FT232R / FT245R |
| 11 | - FT2232L / FT2232D / FT2232C |
| 12 | - FT232BM / FT245BM (and the BL/BQ variants) |
| 13 | - FT8U232AM / FT8U245AM |
| 14 | |
| 15 | libftdi requires libusb 1.x. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | The AUTHORS file contains a list of all the people |
| 18 | that made libftdi possible what it is today. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Changes |
| 21 | ------- |
| 22 | * Ported to libusb 1.x (initial work by Jie Zhang) |
| 23 | * Many eeprom handling improvements (Uwe Bonnes, Anders Larsen) |
| 24 | * Renamed pkconfig, library .so etc. files to "libftdi1" (Intra2net) |
| 25 | * ftdi_eeprom is part of libftdi now (Intra2net) |
| 26 | |
| 27 | * New baudrate calculation code + unit tests (Uwe Bonnes and Intra2net) |
| 28 | * Improved python bindings including python3 support (Michel Zou) |
| 29 | * Switched completely to cmake build system (Intra2net) |
| 30 | * cmake: Easy libftdi discovery via find_package() (Michel Zou) |
| 31 | * eeprom handling now done via get()/set() functions (Uwe Bonnes) |
| 32 | * C++ wrapper: Fixed use-after-free in List::find_all() (Intra2net) |
| 33 | * Documentation updates (Xiaofan Chen) |
| 34 | * See the git history for more changes and fixes |
| 35 | |
| 36 | You'll find the newest version of libftdi at: |
| 37 | http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi |
| 38 | |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Quick start |
| 41 | ----------- |
| 42 | mkdir build |
| 43 | cd build |
| 44 | |
| 45 | cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ../ |
| 46 | make |
| 47 | make install |
| 48 | |
| 49 | More verbose build instructions are in "README.build" |
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