hi,

i've just made this patch to fxload which lets you set the bRequest byte
that is used when uploading data via a loader (-r). i needed this to get
the emi26 driver out of the kernel (since it's being removed in some
distributions already for being non-free). 

according to the driver code, the emi seems to have an fpga which gets
programmed via the ezusb, but it needs to be accessed with a bRequest of
0xa5.

http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/usb/misc/emi26.c

perhaps this patch isn't the most elegant way to achieve this, in which
case, please consider this a feature request for someone to come up with
a better solution ;)

but for what it's worth, the fxload derived loader works for me in at
least one case where the kernel-based version doesn't (when loading the
firmware via a usb2.0 hub).

thanks, 
pix.