2 Nov
2011
2 Nov
'11
9:51 p.m.
On 02/11/11 23:46, Mouse wrote:
There is always the DiscFerret: http://www.discferret.com/
The entire hardware design is open source (I don't even mind people
making DiscFerret boards themselves -- as long as they don't go selling
them as "official" DiscFerrets). Same goes for the software -- Apache
licence for the APIs, and the rest of the software (including PIC
microcontroller firmware and FPGA microcode) is GPLV2 "or any later
version."
As for operating system support? It runs on Linux and Mac OS X natively,
and work is underway to resurrect the Windows/mingw32 and Cygwin ports
(which haven't been tested particularly well due to USB driver issues).
There's a healthy discussion going on in #discferret on
irc.freenode.net, and a mailing list for DiscFerret users and software
developers (which is considerably quieter). The latter is linked from
the main website (see link above).
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
There is
nothing stopping you from using your own software with the
board. I could say "why not use our firmware", but that would be a
binary again and you said you don't run precompiled software.
I do accept it for firmware under some circumstances, such as the
firmware in disk drives and the like.
In this case, if the interface your firmware presents to the host is
documented, I very well might be willing to do exactly that. (I don't
_like_ it, especially not as compared to open-source code, but I'm not
as dogmatic and strident about it as I am when it comes to software
running on the host.)