On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gerd v. Egidy
<gerd.von.egidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jie,
>
>> I updated the following patch
>>
>> http://developer.intra2net.com/mailarchive/html/libftdi/2009/msg00254.html
>>
>> to the current HEAD of libftdi git tree.
>
> thank you very much for updating this.
>
My pleasure. :-)
>> It still only supports
>> libusb-1.0. But we have libusb-1.0 for Windows XP and later now...
>
> I have just seen Petes work on that. Very good to know that things are moving
> forward on that front now.
>
> But I think we should still not rush the move to libusb-1.0 as that would cut
> off some people from new developments and fixes of libftdi. There are still
> some things for the H-chips to be done, e.g. the higher baudrates. So the
> question is how we can make the transition as smooth as possible.
>
> Two ideas come to my mind:
>
> a) implement a glue layer between libftdi and libusb which allows to use
> either libusb-0.1 (sync only) or libusb-1.0 (sync and async). The downside is
> that this is a lot of work and some additional overhead.
>
Yeah. The difference between 0.1 and 1.0 is big.
> b) divide libftdi development in two branches, new stuff is done based on
> libusb-1.0. We can still backport new features to the current branch.
>
> When we want to take the road to b) I think the best way to start would be to
> create a git branch to make the code more easy to access and improve.
>
Yeah, I like this idea.
> Jie, I can offer you a separate git repository on our server to develop this
> further and give it a wider audience. I you are interested, contact me
> privately.
>
I will contact in a few days. Thanks.
>> I know you also have a modified version of libftdi. But I don't know
>> which one is better. Could you take a look?
>
> I have seen Pete posted his code to libusb-devel, but haven't taken a look at
> it yet. Maybe there are some good ideas worth picking up from.
>
Yeah, I will take a look.
>> Btw, it seems it's hard to extract a patch from libftdi mailing list
>> archive if it has already been inlined, since it only provides html
>> page. If it could provide an original email page, it will be much
>> better.
>
> I prefer to have the important stuff in a git repo. Thats much more easy to
> work with.
>
Yes.
Regards,
Jie
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