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54357994 | 1 | This library emulates Jungo Windrvr USB and parallel port functions in |
2 | userspace which are required by XILINX impact to access the Platform cable USB | |
3 | and Parallel Cable III. | |
4 | With this library it is possible to access the cables without loading a | |
5 | proprietary kernel module which breaks with every new kernel release. It uses | |
6f766a61 | 6 | the functionality provided by the libusb userspace library for USB access and |
54357994 | 7 | the kernel interface at /dev/parport0 for parallel port access instead and |
8 | should work on every kernel version which is supported by libusb and supports | |
9 | ppdev. It was written against impact from ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 and tested with | |
10 | the following software: | |
0b50c513 | 11 | |
12 | * ISE Webpack 9.1SP2 | |
13 | * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 | |
54fc4508 | 14 | * ISE Webpack 8.2SP3 |
0b50c513 | 15 | * ISE Webpack 8.1SP3 |
16 | * ChipScope 9.1.02i | |
54fc4508 | 17 | * EDK 8.2.02i |
113af964 | 18 | |
19 | Build the library by calling `make'. | |
20 | ||
21 | To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact: | |
22 | ||
23 | $ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so impact | |
24 | or | |
25 | $ export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so (for sh shells) | |
26 | $ setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libusb-driver.so (for csh shells) | |
27 | $ impact | |
fdd05738 | 28 | |
54357994 | 29 | |
30 | Notes for the USB cable | |
31 | ======================= | |
32 | ||
33 | To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new | |
fdd05738 | 34 | file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev: |
35 | ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666" | |
979132fe | 36 | |
37 | ||
38 | If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb, | |
39 | the initial firmware has not been loaded (loading it changes the | |
40 | product-ID from another value to 8). To load the firmware follow | |
41 | these steps: | |
42 | ||
c2e95a30 | 43 | 1. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from |
44 | /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules | |
979132fe | 45 | |
46 | 2. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution. | |
47 | It is usually called "fxload" | |
48 | ||
49 | 3. copy the file /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.hex to /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex | |
50 | ||
51 | 4. restart udev and re-plug the cable | |
54357994 | 52 | |
53 | ||
54 | Notes for the parallel cable | |
55 | ============================ | |
56 | ||
57 | To access the parallel port from userspace, the kernel needs to be built with | |
58 | the features "Parallel port support" (CONFIG_PARPORT), "PC-style hardware" | |
59 | (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" | |
60 | (CONFIG_PPDEV) builtin or as modules. If these features are built as modules, | |
61 | they need to be loaded before using this library. | |
62 | These modules are called: | |
63 | parport | |
64 | parport_pc | |
65 | ppdev | |
66 | ||
67 | ||
68 | To use the device as an ordinary user, put the user in the group 'lp' | |
6f766a61 | 69 | |
70 | ||
71 | Parallel Cable IV is currently only supported in 'compatibility mode', as no | |
72 | attempt to configure the ECP registers is done by this library. |