X-Git-Url: http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/usb-driver/blobdiff_plain/337944d1da06c3561ce1b2b2da7dba6b68f3d777..7b219d308d74d4ab41643207b0ee37fb2dbbe632:/README diff --git a/README b/README index a86a46a..055780f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -9,16 +9,19 @@ should work on every kernel version which is supported by libusb and supports ppdev. It was written against impact from ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 and tested with the following software: - * ISE Webpack 9.1SP3 - * ISE Webpack 9.1SP2 - * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 + * ISE Webpack 11.1 + * ISE Webpack 10.1 + * ISE Webpack 9.2SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4 + * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1, SP2, SP3 * ISE Webpack 8.2SP3 * ISE Webpack 8.1SP3 - * ChipScope 9.1.03i - * ChipScope 9.1.02i + * ChipScope 10.1 + * ChipScope 9.2.01i, 9.2.02i, 9.2.03i, 9.2.04i + * ChipScope 9.1.02i, 9.1.03i * ChipScope 8.2.04i - * EDK 9.1.02i - * EDK 9.1.01i + * EDK 10.1 + * EDK 9.2.01i, 9.2.02i + * EDK 9.1.01i, 9.1.02i * EDK 8.2.02i * EDK 8.1.02i * Synplicity Identify @@ -28,7 +31,8 @@ In addition to the XILINX USB and parallel cables, devices based on the FTDI devices like the Amontec JTAGkey(-Tiny). Build the library by calling `make'. If you are on a 64 bit system but want -to build a 32 bit library, run `make lib32' instead. +to build a 32 bit library, run `make lib32' instead. Be sure to have the 32 +bit versions of libusb-devel and libftdi-devel installed! To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact: @@ -52,8 +56,8 @@ Notes for the USB cable ======================= To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new -file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev: -ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666" +file "libusb-driver.rules" in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev: +ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666" If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb, @@ -64,12 +68,24 @@ these steps: 1. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules -2. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution. +2. If you are running a newer version of udev (as in Debian Squeeze and + Ubuntu 9.10), you need to adapt the rules-file to the new udev-version: + sed -i -e 's/TEMPNODE/tempnode/' -e 's/SYSFS/ATTRS/g' -e 's/BUS/SUBSYSTEMS/' /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules + +3. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution. It is usually called "fxload" -3. copy the file /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.hex to /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex +4. copy the files /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusb*.hex to /usr/share/ + +5. restart udev and re-plug the cable -4. restart udev and re-plug the cable + +If you have multiple cables connected, you can specify the cable to use +in the XILINX_USB_DEV environment-variable as "bus:device". +These identifiers are available in the output of lsusb: +Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03fd:0008 Xilinx, Inc. + ^^^ ^^^ +To use this cable, set the XILINX_USB_DEV variable to "001:004". Notes for the parallel cable @@ -128,8 +144,17 @@ To set-up the device: 3. To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev: - ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0403", SYSFS{idProduct}=="cff8", MODE="666" + ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="cff8", MODE="666" (replace the vendor and product id with your values) The support for FTDI 2232 based devices is experimental and they are currently significantly slower than the other supported cables. + + +Locked cables +============= + +If you get the message 'The cable is being used by another application.' from +impact, try running the following command: + +echo -e 'cleancablelock\nexit' | impact -batch