gnupic: Re: [gnupic] Linux kernel David Tait-style programmer driver?
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] Linux kernel David Tait-style programmer driver?
From:
####@####.#### (Ian Jackson)
Date:
23 Jan 2006 15:57:16 +0000
Message-Id: <17364.64729.684878.608668@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
James Cameron writes ("[gnupic] Linux kernel David Tait-style programmer driver?"):
> Does anyone know of an implementation of a PIC programmer written as a
> Linux kernel driver using the parport layer?
IME odyssey[1] works very well using the existing parport kernel
driver.
I don't see why would one particularly want a new kernel driver;
that's just extra hassle and doesn't seem to provide much benefit. I
suppose it might allow a slightly faster programming speed on certain
computers but of course faster signal transmission needs more careful
hardware engineering.
In any case I find odyssey on a moderately modern computer quite
adequate, in the sense that the programming time is dominated by
actual flash write time rather than being limited by data transfer
rate. (Obviously the same is not true of readout, but the critical
operation in a test-edit cycle is `reflash'.)
> p.s. not subscribed at the moment, feel free to cc me.
This is - of course - very rude. I'm replying here on the list so
that the list archives have a useful answer, for anyone searching
them. I will *not* be CCing the original poster.
Ian.
[1] http://www.desert.cx/odyssey/, included in Debian.
