diff doc/FTDI-EEPROM-tools @ 51:311c800268b8

doc/FTDI-EEPROM-tools: added note about bigger EEPROMs not providing any more room for strings
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:28:27 +0000
parents b2e9a6f3c833
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--- a/doc/FTDI-EEPROM-tools	Mon Apr 22 23:20:13 2019 +0000
+++ b/doc/FTDI-EEPROM-tools	Mon Apr 22 23:28:27 2019 +0000
@@ -194,6 +194,16 @@
 93C66 EEPROMs and I don't plan on acquiring or building any, hence this minimal
 93C66 support is completely untested - use at your own risk.
 
+It also needs to be noted that with our current RE-based understanding of FTDI's
+undocumented EEPROM structure, using a bigger EEPROM does NOT provide more room
+for strings: all that happens with -b and -B options is that a gap of 64 unused
+EEPROM words is inserted between the end of the fixed structure and the
+beginning of strings.  The exact same arrangement has been observed in all 93C56
+EEPROM images found in the wild, presumably produced with FTDI's official tools,
+including FTDI's own USB-COM232-PLUS2 board - thus it is not clear at all if
+FT2232x chips actually support longer strings with bigger EEPROMs, and if not,
+what does one need a bigger EEPROM for...
+
 For the format of config files read by our ftee-gen2232[ch] tools and what
 settings can be tweaked, read the source code.