[chirp_devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Add bitwise browser when developer options are enabled

Marco IZ3GME
Sun Mar 3 11:39:46 PST 2013


Hi Dean!!
Here I am!
For what I've seen 857 and 897 share the very same memory mapping.

Please send your code code to me: I already have written quite complete 
mapping but, still, having something to compare can be of help and save 
time.

Many thanks
73 de IZ3GME Marco

On 03/03/2013 19:34, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
>
> On 2013-03-03 09:58, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> Greatly appreciated: I'm working on the 857 settings, i'll test this
>>> patch for sure ;)
>>> I'll let you know my thoughts.
>> Cool, thanks :)
>
> I have a rather complete map of the FT-897D memory (which I understand
> is pretty much identical to the FT-857), and the FT-817ND as well.  The
> only problem is, it is in code written in Java, so I don't have clear
> bit-fields like I do in my C++ code for D-Star radios.  The Java code
> uses a table format describing the fields and the bit positions therein,
> using Java "enum"s, so the code isn't very clear to someone who is not
> familiar with that Java feature.
>
> If someone wants that (GPL v2) code, I have no problem providing it,
> with the understanding that I don't presently have the time to explain
> the code (flying weather is picking up).  It doesn't look too difficult
> to figure out.
>
> -- Dean
>
> ps: I used GPL v2 (without the "any later version" clause) in my code,
> because I don't particularly care for the idea that Richard Stallman
> could decide on a new GPL license, and have *users* arbitrarily adopt
> that, with unknown consequences to me.  I don't particularly mind v3 (I
> prefer v2;  I think it's a better license for my purposes), but I'm not
> comfortable with leaving the door open to any future revisions that he
> or anyone else at the FSF would create.  I don't believe that reverse
> engineering my code is a violation of the GPL v2 (at any rate I'll allow
> it in this circumstance), but I'd like to restrict its distribution to
> GPL v2 only.
>
>
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