Issues 179505

[Adrian Chadd]

Heh. yes.

I'm just saying. As someone who has hacked on this stuff a bit and
watched a lot of people hack on it, if their projects didn't work in
freebsd/pcbsd, they'd say "fuck it" and reinstall Linux.

If you'd like to further adoption of this stuff on FreeBSD, we have to
work around the brokenness. :(




Adrian


On 21 June 2013 17:34, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 21 June 2013 14:07, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at bitfrost.no> wrote:
>>> I think I have one of these devices at work. I can have a look if I have
>>> time next week. Possibly the Arduino needs a fix. Look for so-called
>>> spurious VBUS pullup toggling in the software of the Arduino.
>> Considering there's a large number of unfixed Arduinos out there and
>> it works fine on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD, I don't think "fix the
>> arduino" should be the only solution.
>
> Did you mean "OSX" instead of FreeBSD there?
>
> While not really optimal, I'd consider it acceptable if the fix were
> in software, so that the Arduino IDE's "burn bootloader" menu entry
> could be used to fix the thing. But fixing things so it just worked
> would be better.
>
>     Thanks,
>     <mike