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[Hamlib-developer] HRD removes EEPROM read/writes to FT8x7

[Tomi M. <oh...@sr...>]

Hi,

In case this was not already known here... Someone posted this to our 
national Ham Radio mailing list. Apparently Yaesu has asked the current 
HRD developers to remove the FT8x7 EEPROM read/write functionality. 
After asking details from HRD support, he received this explanation 
(partial copy-paste):

------ 8< ------
"Yaesu has advised us to remove some of the controls from the 
857/897/817which were NOT directly supported by the firmware CAT command 
set.

We HAD to do this as the V5 and previous developers had added some of 
their own code that wrote directly to the flash ram on the rig, this has 
been causing the flash ram chips to fail, and Yaesu can no longer get 
replacement chips. So we have HAD to remove this kludge code and can 
only use the official CAT commands now.

We have taken this action to prevent damage to users radios.

We would be negligent if we failed to take this action.

We strongly advise that you do not run any version prior to 6.3.0.410 
otherwise you are risking destruction of the memory device, this will 
stop your radio from functioning. "
------ 8< ------

/Tomi

Re: [Hamlib-developer] HRD removes EEPROM read/writes to FT8x7

[Nate B. <n0...@n0...>]

Thanks, Tomi.

I haven't audited every line of the affected Hamlib code, but to my
knowledge those backends only use the documented CAT commands.

73, Nate

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Re: [Hamlib-developer] HRD removes EEPROM read/writes to FT8x7

[Michal D. <mic...@gm...>]

I have sent patch few years back that read eeprom value, to determine
which ssb was selected. But no writing to eeprom was involved.

 Mike

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0...@n0...> wrote:
> Thanks, Tomi.
>
> I haven't audited every line of the affected Hamlib code, but to my
> knowledge those backends only use the documented CAT commands.
>
> 73, Nate
>
> --
>
> "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
> possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."
>
> Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us
>
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