[chirp_devel] driver file for Alinco DJ-500 with AnyTone protocol

[Dan Smith]

> I own an Alinco DJ-500, which at least in the programming protocal uses
> the AnyTone protocol.

Well, technically the anytone radios copied the alinco protocol, but.. yeah :)

> I've got it basically talking with the AnyTone
> driver, still fiddling arround with the memory layout. So the good news
> is it's not difficult to get it running with chirp (actually I've
> reverse-engineered the protocoll, and while half through I found out
> about the parallels with AnyTone, tried that and... let's say I learned
> a lot...)
> 
> Now my question would be: Should the details be integrated in the
> AnyTone driver, or should the AnyTone driver be duplicated?

It depends. If it's easyish to unify them that would really be best. We have a ton of duplication, but it largely comes from not being able to test refactors once we find a radio that shares something with an existing driver. However, I recall that alinco wireline code being pretty simple, so I think you could probably refactor them to share without much danger, right?

--Dan