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

[Jason Hecker]

> Well, no fixed date, but it's my intention to roll the next release
> within a few day's time.  I did a massive sweep over the bug database

OK.  Well, my only issue is that it uses a new (as yet unreleased)
libftdi from http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi-1.0 and
libusb-1.0.  As much as it Works for Me with MinGW in Win32 using
prebuilt libraries available in the devkits on
http://code.google.com/p/picusb/downloads/list I fear it'll be a
problem for other platforms until these libraries find their way into
the various Linux package systems.

At the moment FTDI support is a side project for me so until I can
focus on it to improve the code quality, documentation and test it
some more on other AVRs and also in Linux - then it might have to wait
until 5.12.  I think it'd be neat for the FTDI devices to work with
the other serial programming modes some AVRs use via bit banging.  I
can say though that using the FTDI device in SPI mode things are
pretty quick (from memory <20s to program 128KB of flash)

Cheers
Jason