FT2232 drivers on MacOSX

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An irritating thing about MacOSX is that you have to unload FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext serial driver to use the MPSSE (JTAG) features.

There is a workaround for that, but it is a trick and should be used by individuals only, surely not in the production device.

You can change the VID/PID of FT2232 to something non-existing and specify the new VID/PID when connecting with urJTAG or OpenOCD. 

cable ft2232 pid=0xbb02

I have changed my PID to 0xBB02 and it works perfectly along with FTDI serial drivers. All I have to do is use PID parameter when connecting.

Thanks pppd!

urJTAG

cable ft2232 pid=0xbb02

OpenOCD

#
# Bus Blaster v2
#
# http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Blaster
#
interface ft2232
ft2232_device_desc "BusBlasterV2"
ft2232_serial "BBv2"
ft2232_layout jtagkey
ft2232_vid_pid 0x0403 0xbb02
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