Re: [OpenOCD-devel] To Zadig or not to Zadig?

[Liviu I. <il...@li...>]

> On 8 Jun 2017, at 14:07, Paul Fertser <fer...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:51:43PM +0300, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> 
>> there are many other FTDI applications out there (I have and use
>> some) which rely on this standard behaviour. what do you think will
>> happen to all these devices if I unload the FTDI kext?
> 
> They won't be working during the debug session, granted, but will
> start working after kext loading or OS restart.

sorry, but this is not an acceptable solution :-(

> Serial port abstraction provided by an OS is certainly not adequate to
> be able to talk MPSSE to the chip I think, so that's not an option.

ah, right. I thought the programming pins are connected to the handshake/modem signals, which can be toggled, but if this is not the case, then it is not an option.

> Plenty of people are using FTDI debug adapters on windows and OS X
> already, as far as I know.

poor them...


regards,

Liviu