From 8b82de60c770227657a9a99274fd76073ffc6059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oharboe Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:24:59 +0000 Subject: David Brownell mention udev, and correct D2XX speed mentions git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@2526 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60 --- README | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 34f79074..e3b49a93 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ you can build the in-tree documentation. 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. + ================================= Obtaining OpenOCD From Subversion --------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3