From: <oh...@ma...> - 2009-07-14 20:25:17
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Author: oharboe Date: 2009-07-14 20:24:59 +0200 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) New Revision: 2526 Modified: trunk/README Log: David Brownell <da...@pa...> mention udev, and correct D2XX speed mentions Modified: trunk/README =================================================================== --- trunk/README 2009-07-14 11:57:59 UTC (rev 2525) +++ trunk/README 2009-07-14 18:24:59 UTC (rev 2526) @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ Installing OpenOCD ================== +On Linux, you may have permissions problems to address. The best +way to do this is to use the contrib/udev.rules file. It probably +belongs somewhere in /etc/udev/rules.d, but consult your operating +system documentation to be sure. In particular, make sure that it +matches the syntax used by your operating system's version of udev. + A Note to OpenOCD Users ----------------------- @@ -325,7 +331,7 @@ Using FTDI's FTD2XX ------------------- -Some claim the (closed) FTDICHIP.COM solution is faster, which +The (closed source) FTDICHIP.COM solution is faster on MS-Windows. That is the motivation for supporting it even though its licensing restricts it to non-redistributable OpenOCD binaries, and it is not available for all operating systems used with OpenOCD. You may, however, build such @@ -370,6 +376,9 @@ --with-ft2xx-linux-tardir=../libftd2xx0.4.16 \ ... other options ... +Note that on Linux there is no good reason to use these FTDI binaries; +they are no faster (on Linux) than libftdi, and cause licensing issues. + ================================= Obtaining OpenOCD From Subversion --------------------------------- |