28 Jun
2021
28 Jun
'21
6:22 a.m.
On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 14:11, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
I think he's probably referring to the hugely overinflated BIOS &
firmware updating software that most x86 hardware ships with.
I've never had the need to connect an FTDI based device to anything
other than NetBSD, but I remember reading the horror stories a while
back about FTDI Windows drivers trying to brick knock off clone
hardware.
David
On Jun 28,
2021, at 4:23 AM, David Brownlee via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
I noticed this the other day, just in case it's of interest to anyone
on this thread.
| https://www.tindie.com/products/nsayer/ftdi-be-gone/
| FTDI-be-gone is a USB-to-serial adapter. ... Rather than use a
proprietary device
| driver to implement the serial port in the host, it relies on CDC
class drivers supplied by the
| OS.
Which OS requires special FTDI drivers? Mac OS certainly does not.