FTDI device "Olimex AVRISP-500" does not show up under FreeBSD. Linux driver source code available, translating this to changes in FreeBSD uftdi kern module?

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> On Saturday 05 February 2011 22:26:03 Benjamin wrote:
>> The Olimex is a programmer for AVR microcontrollers. It is apparently an
>> FTDI device and works under Linux. The product page at
>> http://www.olimex.com/dev/avr-isp500.html provides source code for a
>> Linux FTDI kernel module.
>>
>> I have the looked through the Linux FTDI driver source code and have
>> even been given a patch by a helpful member at the FreeBSD forums
>> (wblock) but so far no luck.
>>
>> Here is what it is identified as when plugged in to USB:
>>
>> Feb  5 13:30:07 blackbox kernel: ugen1.2: <Olimex Ltd.> at usbus1
>>
>> It should ideally show up as cuaU0 or ttyUSB0 as far as I understand.
>>
>> A quick search through the Linux driver source code to find all
>>
>> instances of OLIMEX:
>> > grep OLIMEX ftdi_*.[c,h]
>>
>> ftdi_sio.c:     { USB_DEVICE(OLIMEX_VID, OLIMEX_ARM_USB_OCD_PID),
>> ftdi_sio.c:     { USB_DEVICE(OLIMEX_VID, OLIMEX_AVR_ISP500_ISO_PID) },
>> ftdi_sio_ids.h:#define OLIMEX_VID                       0x15BA
>> ftdi_sio_ids.h:#define OLIMEX_ARM_USB_OCD_PID           0x0003
>> ftdi_sio_ids.h:#define OLIMEX_AVR_ISP500_ISO_PID        0x000B
>>
>> Note that the above is Linux kernel module source. Myself and wblock
>> have tried to hack the FreeBSD uftdi kernel module to no avail. He
>> offered the attached patch which did not seem to work.
>>
>> The Linux driver source is available here:
>> http://www.olimex.com/dev/soft/avr/AVR-ISP500/AVR-ISP500_linux_driver.zip
>>
>> Does this look like something that could easily be changed in the
>> FreeBSD uftdi kern module?
>
> Your patch looks OK. Can you create a PR so that your patch doesn't get lost?

I was going to also patch the uftdi man page and submit a PR with all 
three patches if it worked.  But unfortunately, it doesn't.  Only vendor 
ID seems verified so far.