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Re:Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars? by analog31 on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:26AM (#11011875)
Are the CH340G drivers open source? I bought a pile of them, but have been skittish about installing one because I can't figure out where the drivers come from. Granted, knowing that FTDI's drivers come from FTDI doesn't prevent them from messing around with them, but still, the CH340G seems like more of a mystery.
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Re:Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars? by welterde on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:37AM (#11011929)
The datasheet does not seem to be very specific on what protocol it actually uses. It does however state it is software-compatible to CH341 and for that there is a linux driver[1].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

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Re:Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars? by tyingq on Monday February 01, 2016 @10:23AM (#11012202)
For drivers other than Linux:

The manufacturer's website is http://wch.cn

Their drivers are here: http://wch.cn/index.php?s=/page-search_content-keyword-USB%E...

They don't appear to be open source, but I believe they are signed drivers for both Windows and OSX.

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