(OSX) Ecpprog and FTDI USB Serial driver not working together for ECP5 Versa board
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I hope this is the correct place to report the issue, I will gladly follow pointers to the appropriate place if it is not.
I am using MacOS X Mojave, 10.14.6.
The ECP5 Versa board, connected over USB, seems to not be recognised by ecpprog when I make use of the FTDI USB serial drivers instead of the native OSX FTDI driver:
$ ecpprog -S full-correlator.bin
init..
Can't find iCE FTDI USB device (vendor_id 0x0403, device_id 0x6010 or 0x6014).
ABORT.
$ sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext/
$ sudo kextload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI
$ ecpprog -S full-correlator.bin
init..
IDCODE: 0x02224086 does not match :(
reset..
programming..
Bye.
$
The IDCODE warning message notwithstanding, the bitfile is successfully loaded in the second instance.
While the FTDI USB serial driver is active, the connected board does show up normally in /dev:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 23 Aug 24 19:30 /dev/cu.usbserial-FT1V75R1A
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 25 Aug 24 19:30 /dev/cu.usbserial-FT1V75R1B
and also appears when I use the lsusb command:
$ lsusb
0403:6010 (bus 20, device 10) path: 1
047d:1020 (bus 20, device 7) path: 2.3
05ac:0221 (bus 20, device 6) path: 2.2
<snip>
$
The top entry in the list above shows the ECP5 Versa board appearing through the expected vendor and product IDs for the FT2232H chip involved (0x0403 and 0x6010). I am therefore not sure why ecpprog does not recognise it.
Happy to provide more information if needed!
I'm not familiar enough with OSX's drivers to have any extra insight on this unfortunately.