X-Git-Url: http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4a5d45b3b25795f9856f9c65ba464ca2f50ce6da;hp=923c811597fa750f0d1222ede022ad1ec53ef83a;hb=61afff55ab7657493a14e39153c5c9caad2d7013;hpb=829ce4de4d0cf803e0031c76f28dc62ffed7c9d9 diff --git a/README b/README index 923c811..4a5d45b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,61 @@ -libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's FT2232C, -FT232BM and FT245BM type chips including the popular bitbang mode. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +libftdi version 1.3 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + +libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's UART/FIFO chips +including the popular bitbang mode. + +The following chips are supported: +* FT230X +- FT4232H / FT2232H +- FT232R / FT245R +- FT2232L / FT2232D / FT2232C +- FT232BM / FT245BM (and the BL/BQ variants) +- FT8U232AM / FT8U245AM + +libftdi requires libusb 1.x. The AUTHORS file contains a list of all the people that made libftdi possible what it is today. -See the Changelog for news. +Changes +------- +* Added ftdi_usb_get_strings2() to prevent automatic device close (Fahrzin Hemmati) +* Added ftdi_transfer_data_cancel() for cancellation of a submitted transfer, + avoided resubmittion of a canceled transfer in the callbacks, + replaced calls to libusb_handle_events with + libusb_handle_events_timeout_completed (Eugene Hutorny) +* ftdi_eeprom / eeprom handling: + * Add support for arbitrary user data (Salvador Eduardo Tropea) + * Add --build-eeprom support (Salvador Eduardo Tropea) + * Fix use_usb_version config file option (Thilo Schulz) + * Ability to include other config files in EEPROM config file (Thilo Schulz) + * Add external oscillator enable bit (Raphael Assenat) + * Support channel configuration (Stephan Linz) + * Added --device option to ftdi_eeprom to specify FTDI device (Robin Haberkorn) + * Fixed EEPROM user-area space checks for FT232R and FT245R chips (Robin Haberkorn) +* Various improvements to CBUS handling, including the EEPROM (Robin Haberkorn) +* swig wrapper: Fix handling of binary strings in ftdi_write_data() + for python 3 (xantares09) +* cbus python example code (Rodney Sinclair) +* ftdi_stream: fix timeout setting (Ларионов Даниил) +* Fixed typo in CBUS defines: CBUSG_DRIVE1 -> CBUSH_DRIVE1 + +You'll find the newest version of libftdi at: +http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi + + +Quick start +----------- +mkdir build +cd build + +cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ../ +make +make install + +More verbose build instructions are in "README.build" + +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +www.intra2net.com 2003-2014 Intra2net AG +--------------------------------------------------------------------