Follow-up Comment #3, patch #7062 (project avrdude):
>> Curious, are you aware of patch #6502?
> Yes. this patch is based on a very early version of avrftdi,
> reworken by Ville. I decided to open a new patch, because there are
> like 3 revisions of avrdude in between and countless
> changes/improvements on avrftdi. I hope that wasn't wrong.
Well, you could have attached a file to the old patch I think. But
it's OK that way as well.
>> #6886 also tries to implement something similar or not. (I think
>> it's different because it works on an FT232 rather than an FT2232
>> only.)
> I am also aware of this patch, however bitbanging just plain s****,
> beacuse it's awfully slow.
I know, though for the purpose indicated in the patch (initial
programming of a bootloader), it's probably not too bad an idea
either.
> Also #6886 DOES rely on the closed source
> driver (as i understand it).
I'm afraid that's the case, yes.
> I understand that concern. However there are 2 drivers for
> ftdi-devices: the above-mentioned ftd2xx (the closed source-binary
> distributed by ftdi) and an open source driver called libftdi (LGPL,
> i think), which avrftdi uses. libftdi uses libusb and sould therefor
> run everywhere, where libusb works.
OK, I see. Thanks for the clarification!
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