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2libftdi version 1.0
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5libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's UART/FIFO chips
6including the popular bitbang mode.
7
8The 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
15libftdi requires libusb 1.x.
16
17The AUTHORS file contains a list of all the people
18that made libftdi possible what it is today.
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20Changes
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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
36You'll find the newest version of libftdi at:
37http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi
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39
40Quick start
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42mkdir build
43cd build
44
45cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ../
46make
47make install
48
49More verbose build instructions are in "README.build"
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