This prefix isn't actually used and only adds noise, so remove it.
It may have been useful on Linux that makes a distinction between
/dev/ttyACM* and /dev/ttyUSB* but it isn't now. Also, it's unlikely that
the same vid/pid pair will be shared between an acm and usb driver
anyway.
This can be very useful for some purposes:
* It makes it possible to disable the UART in cases where it is not
needed or needs to be disabled to conserve power.
* It makes it possible to disable the serial output to reduce code
size, which may be important for some chips. Sometimes, a few kB can
be saved this way.
* It makes it possible to override the default, for example you might
want to use an actual UART to debug the USB-CDC implementation.
It also lowers the dependency on having machine.Serial defined, which is
often not defined when targeting a chip. Eventually, we might want to
make it possible to write `-target=nrf52` or `-target=atmega328p` for
example to target the chip itself with no board specific assumptions.
The defaults don't change. I checked this by running `make smoketest`
before and after and comparing the results.
This makes it possible to flash a board even when there are multiple
different kinds of boards attached, e.g. an Arduino Uno and a Circuit
Playground Express. You can find the VID/PID pair in several ways:
1. By running `lsusb` before and after attaching the board and looking
at the new USB device.
2. By grepping for `usb_PID` and `usb_VID` in the TinyGo source code.
3. By checking the Arduino IDE boards.txt from the vendor.
Note that one board may have multiple VID/PID pairs:
* The bootloader and main program may have a different PID, so far
I've seen that the main program generally has the bootloader PID
with 0x8000 added.
* The software running on the board may have an erroneous PID, for
example from a different board. I've seen this happen a few times.
* A single board may have had some revisions which changed the PID.
This is particularly true for the Arduino Uno.
As a fallback, if the given VID/PID pair isn't found, the whole set of
serial ports will be used.
There are many boards which I haven't included yet simply because I
couldn't test them.
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Kenneth Bell
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