Can we avoid the special case for tinyprog on darwin?

[zapta]

@cavearr, this is a question for you.

The general command line for the tinyprog progammer that apio uses is

tinyprog --pyserial -c ${SERIAL_PORT} --program $SOURCE

However there is a special hardcoded case for tinyprog on darwin which sets the command

tinyprog --libusb --program $SOURCE

Is this special case necessary? Can we merge the cases together into a single command line?

[cavearr]

i'll try it . In osx always i use --libusb, the other command line i'm not use never.
Tomorrow afternoon i'll play with it in different OSs and try to find if is it possible reduce to one command.

Thanks @zapta!

[zapta]

What board do you use with tinyprog? I look for TinyFPGA BX and EX but couldn't find any for sale https://tinyfpga.com/

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[cavearr]

Hi @zapta , TinyFPGA-BX but be careful because the last batches has been solded with bad firmware. And the project appears very abandoned or unatended.

I buyed several years ago, now i don't know where you can buy. I know, people that i had been helped in summer to work with it, buy in the past Spring at Mouser.

I'm working in a patched version of tinyprog to work with old and new boards i hope have for testing during the next week.

[zapta]

Hi @cavearr, can we remove the special case of tinyprog on darwin that sets the command line to tinyprog --libusb --program $SOURCE instead of the command tinyprog --pyserial -c ${SERIAL_PORT} --program $SOURCE that is used on the other platforms.

[zapta]

Hi @cavearr , can we remove this tinyprog special case? (more details in the other posts in this issue)

apio/apio/managers/programmers.py

Line 61 in cd6821a

if "tinyprog" in board_info and apio_ctx.is_darwin:

[cavearr]

yes @zapta remove it, i'll work around tinyfpga the next week, i have been planned a deep work on it to fix the programmers , i'm telling you around this the next week because i think we need to use our own programmer to have all tinybx models working.

[zapta]

Thanks @cavearr, I will remove it.

[zapta]

Removed. Closing.