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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 | |
6 | the functions provided by the libusb userspace library for USB access and | |
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: | |
11 | ||
12 | * ISE Webpack 9.1SP2 | |
13 | * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 | |
14 | * ISE Webpack 8.1SP3 | |
15 | * ChipScope 9.1.02i | |
16 | ||
17 | Build the library by calling `make'. | |
18 | ||
19 | To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact: | |
20 | ||
21 | $ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so impact | |
22 | or | |
23 | $ export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so (for sh shells) | |
24 | $ setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libusb-driver.so (for csh shells) | |
25 | $ impact | |
26 | ||
27 | ||
28 | Notes for the USB cable | |
29 | ======================= | |
30 | ||
31 | To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new | |
32 | file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev: | |
33 | ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666" | |
34 | ||
35 | ||
36 | If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb, | |
37 | the initial firmware has not been loaded (loading it changes the | |
38 | product-ID from another value to 8). To load the firmware follow | |
39 | these steps: | |
40 | ||
41 | 1. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from | |
42 | /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules | |
43 | ||
44 | 2. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution. | |
45 | It is usually called "fxload" | |
46 | ||
47 | 3. copy the file /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.hex to /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex | |
48 | ||
49 | 4. restart udev and re-plug the cable | |
50 | ||
51 | ||
52 | Notes for the parallel cable | |
53 | ============================ | |
54 | ||
55 | To access the parallel port from userspace, the kernel needs to be built with | |
56 | the features "Parallel port support" (CONFIG_PARPORT), "PC-style hardware" | |
57 | (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" | |
58 | (CONFIG_PPDEV) builtin or as modules. If these features are built as modules, | |
59 | they need to be loaded before using this library. | |
60 | These modules are called: | |
61 | parport | |
62 | parport_pc | |
63 | ppdev | |
64 | ||
65 | ||
66 | To use the device as an ordinary user, put the user in the group 'lp' |