FreeCalypso > hg > fc-usbser-tools
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Installed-binaries: list of binaries installed by this package
I am establishing a new convention for all FreeCalypso tools, across
different packages and source repositories: each FC tools package
will have a file name Installed-binaries listing all user-invokable
binaries that package installs in /opt/freecalypso/bin. These files
are to serve as an aid to users and distro package maintainers who
prefer to not add /opt/freecalypso/bin to their PATH. The alternative
to adding this directory to PATH is to create a symlink for every
installed binary in some standard location such as /usr/bin or
/usr/local/bin, pointing to the actual binary in /opt/freecalypso/bin;
having a list of all FC-installed binaries in a standardized format
will allow this process to be automated.
| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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| date | Fri, 29 Sep 2023 19:42:53 +0000 |
| parents | f2542deec11a |
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The present package is a set of tools for working with USB-serial interface chips, specifically those FTDI and Silabs chips that are of relevance to FreeCalypso. The following tools are included: * Utilities for examining the non-volatile baud rate configuration on CP2102 adapters and for reprogramming their EEPROM, switching between "standard" 230400/460800/921600 and GSM-specific 203125/406250/812500 baud rates; * A utility for switching a FreeCalypso DUART28 adapter between C and S configurations, as well as checking the current configuration; * General-purpose FT2232x and FT232R EEPROM programming tools. The common theme across all of these tools is that they talk to a USB-interfaced chip at the native USB level, bypassing the usual abstraction of ttyUSB, and thus require libusb. More specifically, our tools are built on libusb-0.x API, consisting of <usb.h> include header and -lusb link library pull-in; on "modern" systems these pieces will typically be provided by libusb-compat-0.1 package wrapping around libusb-1.x, but in the spirit of Holy retrocomputing, really old systems can be used with native libusb-0.1.