[avrdude-dev] FTDI patch(patch(patch)))

[Jason Hecker]

I have patched the patches (http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?7486)
that patch SVN952 of AVRDUDE to support an FTDI 232H in SPI mode.  I
had to make some small changes to get it to work but it now supports
the 30MHz clock in this family of 'H' suffix parts - not just the
older 6MHz clock.  I have only tested them in Win32 using the new
development versions of libftdi and libusb-1.0 and an ATMega1280.

I'll need to make a tweak or two - but after I make a new patch
submission what are the chances of it being included in AVRDUDE 5.11?
I think that as there are less and less computers with native serial
and parallel ports that boards with these cheap and fast FTDI USB
chips (and their ilk) will soon come to the fore.