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Subject: Re: may I commit this small umodem patch ?
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On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:28:47AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2008, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:33:15PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:07:00PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:07:19 +0200
> > > > >
> > > > > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote:
> > > > > > There was a discussion back in september about adding
> > > > > > support for basic CDC tty devices in umodem.c.
> > > > > > This lets you talk to a number of usb devices built around
> > > > > > microcontrollers (e.g. Atmel), and puts us on par with
> > > > > > Linux and Windows in terms of supporting these devices.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Because this simply requires the small patch below to the
> > > > > > probe/attach routine, so if there are no objections I plan to add
> > > > > > this to the system (CURRENT then RELENG_7 and RELENG_6) in the next
> > > > > > few days.
> > >
> > > What about flow control? Is flow control required for these devices?
> >
> > the ones I am talking about don't implement any form of flow control.
> > I suppose they would otherwise match the previous check.
> >
> > luigi
> 
> I mean, are you going to upload firmware through these interfaces?

the OS only know about bytes.

are firmware, software, data or random noise.
if you want to know whether the sam7 uploader works, yes it does.