From: Uwe Hermann Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:38:52 +0000 (+0100) Subject: README: Update to mention the Hantek 6022BE firmware. X-Git-Tag: sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw-0.1.4~43 X-Git-Url: https://sigrok.org/gitaction?a=commitdiff_plain;h=52ec81d349f5917587e98519b04ff109cf5cf32e;p=sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw.git README: Update to mention the Hantek 6022BE firmware. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 7c1e6e75..548749fa 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more). sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw is a Free/Libre/Open-source firmware for logic -analyzers based on the Cypress EZ-USB FX2(LP) chip. +analyzers based on the Cypress EZ-USB FX2(LP) chip, as well as the +Hantek 6022BE USB oscilloscope. Status @@ -89,14 +90,48 @@ The following files/directories were removed, as they're not needed for our purposes: CHANGELOG, COPYING*, docs/, examples/, fw/, and utils/. +Hantek 6022BE firmware +---------------------- + +The Hantek 6022BE firmware was originally created by Jochen Hoenicke in +05/2015 for the Hantek6022API github project by Robert Cope. Full credit +for the implementation of the firmware goes to Jochen Hoenicke, thanks! + +Github project: + + https://github.com/rpcope1/Hantek6022API + +We've incorporated the Hantek 6022BE firmware into the sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw +repo/tarball for convenience of sigrok users. E.g. so that they can +easily get it with the other fx2lafw firmware files from distro +packages, the build scripts in sigrok-util automatically build/install +it, the sigrok Windows installers automatically ship it, the sigrok +Android APKs automatically ship it, etc. etc. + +The files we've integrated into fx2lafw from Hantek6022API were taken from +the PyHT6022/HantekFirmware/custom directory of that repo, using the state +as of 03/2016 (the files were last modified in 05/2015, though). + +The git hash of the last relevant commit there was: + + 0498e2ab239aabb1084c19e1e24faf56764b217e + +Files integrated into fx2lafw: + + - hw/hantek-6022be/dscr.a51: Copied unmodified. + + - hantek_6022be.c: This file was originally created by appending the + contents of the original device.c and fw.c together. + + Copyright and license --------------------- sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. -It uses additional helper code (fx2lib), licensed under the GNU LGPL -(version 2.1 or later). +It uses additional helper code (fx2lib, Hantek 6022BE firmware), licensed +under the GNU LGPL (version 2.1 or later). While some individual source code files are licensed under the LGPLv2.1+, and some files are licensed under the GPLv2+, this doesn't change the fact that