xc3sprog -- any updates?

I was about to start hacking on xc3sprog after e-mailing the author and
not hearing back, but I was curious if anyone else has done the same.
I'm interested in adding programmatic support for the spartan-3
USER1/USER2 instructions, as well as getting it to program my
coolrunner-II CPLD and Virtex-4 LX. Before I reinvent the wheel, has
anyone else done this? 

   ...Eric

Eric wrote:
> I was about to start hacking on xc3sprog after e-mailing the author and
> not hearing back, but I was curious if anyone else has done the same.
> I'm interested in adding programmatic support for the spartan-3
> USER1/USER2 instructions, as well as getting it to program my
> coolrunner-II CPLD and Virtex-4 LX. Before I reinvent the wheel, has
> anyone else done this?
>

Eric,
I started using xc3sprog some weks ago (tired to upgrade the windrvr6
each
time I upgrade or recompile the kernel ;-) )
I made a very minor change in the detectchain.cpp in order to print the
device position of each device found in the chain.
I wrote also a script to help chosing the device to program
graphically.
Nothing about USER1/USER2... but when I've a little bit of time I would
like
hacking on xc3sprog too!

If You are interested I can send You the changes I made to
detectchain.cpp and the
script I wrote.

Have a nice day
Sandro

> Eric,
> I started using xc3sprog some weks ago (tired to upgrade the windrvr6
> each
> time I upgrade or recompile the kernel ;-) )
> I made a very minor change in the detectchain.cpp in order to print the
> device position of each device found in the chain.
> I wrote also a script to help chosing the device to program
> graphically.
> Nothing about USER1/USER2... but when I've a little bit of time I would
> like
> hacking on xc3sprog too!
>
> If You are interested I can send You the changes I made to
> detectchain.cpp and the
> script I wrote.
>
> Have a nice day
> Sandro

That sounds great!

After a few hours of work this morning I've already got it programming
my 4VLX25, and I just managed to get USER1 working.

This is really a testament to the original code; it is well-thought-out
and easy to understand.

Eric wrote:
> I was about to start hacking on xc3sprog after e-mailing the author and
> not hearing back, but I was curious if anyone else has done the same.
> I'm interested in adding programmatic support for the spartan-3
> USER1/USER2 instructions, as well as getting it to program my
> coolrunner-II CPLD and Virtex-4 LX. Before I reinvent the wheel, has
> anyone else done this?

I've modified it to run under FreeBSD (pretty trivial changes) but nothing
more (since I'm only using Spartan 3's :)

Perhaps you could put it up on Sourceforge or something similar?

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Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au> wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> > I was about to start hacking on xc3sprog after e-mailing the author and
> > not hearing back, but I was curious if anyone else has done the same.
> > I'm interested in adding programmatic support for the spartan-3
> > USER1/USER2 instructions, as well as getting it to program my
> > coolrunner-II CPLD and Virtex-4 LX. Before I reinvent the wheel, has
> > anyone else done this?

> I've modified it to run under FreeBSD (pretty trivial changes) but nothing
> more (since I'm only using Spartan 3's :)

> Perhaps you could put it up on Sourceforge or something similar?

Yes, Sourceforge would be a good place.

I have changes to recognise different adapters ( Xilinx parallel, Altera
Byteblaster and the MPSSE machine of an FT2232  USB Adapter).

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Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
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> Yes, Sourceforge would be a good place.
>

I've created the sf project as xc3sprog -- I think with all these
additions we've expanded the program a bit from what its original
purpose was, but there seems to be no harm in keeping the name.

Evidently SF will be contacting me in a day or two saying they've set
up the project, at which point I'll upload the code and we can start
accepting patches. Does anyone else want admin bits on the site?
   ...Eric

Eric wrote:
> ...
> I've created the sf project as xc3sprog -- I think with all these
> additions we've expanded the program a bit from what its original
> purpose was, but there seems to be no harm in keeping the name.
>
> Evidently SF will be contacting me in a day or two saying they've set
> up the project, at which point I'll upload the code and we can start
> accepting patches. Does anyone else want admin bits on the site?
>    ...Eric

Eric,
Any news from sourceforge ?
   http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/
seems not available... is the rigth address ?

Sandro

> Eric,
> Any news from sourceforge ?
>    http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/
> seems not available... is the rigth address ?
>
> Sandro

They created it this afternoon; it should be up! I'm going to import
the original code into svn right now...
     ...Eric

Eric wrote:
>
> They created it this afternoon; it should be up! I'm going to import
> the original code into svn right now...
>      ...Eric

Eric,
Great... I saw the version you uploaded is slightly different than
the version I worked on!
I'll check how my changes apply to your version and after
i'll send you!

bye
Sandro

Eric wrote:
>
> They created it this afternoon; it should be up! I'm going to import
> the original code into svn right now...
>      ...Eric

Eric,
The version you uploaded is the latest ?!?

I got it from :
   http://www.rogerstech.force9.co.uk/
   http://www.rogerstech.force9.co.uk/xc3sprog/index.html
(seems to be the webpage of the author...)

Sandro