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David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> mention udev, and correct D2XX speed mentions

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Installing OpenOCD
==================

On Linux, you may have permissions problems to address. The best
way to do this is to use the contrib/udev.rules file. It probably
belongs somewhere in /etc/udev/rules.d, but consult your operating
system documentation to be sure. In particular, make sure that it
matches the syntax used by your operating system's version of udev.

A Note to OpenOCD Users
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Using FTDI's FTD2XX
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Some claim the (closed) FTDICHIP.COM solution is faster, which
The (closed source) FTDICHIP.COM solution is faster on MS-Windows. That
is the motivation for supporting it even though its licensing restricts
it to non-redistributable OpenOCD binaries, and it is not available for
all operating systems used with OpenOCD. You may, however, build such
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--with-ft2xx-linux-tardir=../libftd2xx0.4.16 \
... other options ...

Note that on Linux there is no good reason to use these FTDI binaries;
they are no faster (on Linux) than libftdi, and cause licensing issues.

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Obtaining OpenOCD From Subversion
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