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authoroharboe <oharboe@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60>2009-07-14 18:24:59 +0000
committeroharboe <oharboe@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60>2009-07-14 18:24:59 +0000
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David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> mention udev, and correct D2XX speed mentions
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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 @@ Then type ``make'', and perhaps ``make install''.
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 @@ the following:
--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.
+
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Obtaining OpenOCD From Subversion
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