Add support for BSL programming For Linux (Cross-Platform)

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Software support for bootstrap loading is currently a wrapper program suite that glues:

• TI BSL script autogeneration python script
• FTDI CBUS GPIO bitbang python script to enable Faraday into BSL mode
• TI supplied windows program that performs BSL communications and uploading (.exe)

This currently will not support Linux.

Possible paths:

• Move to TI support cross platform MSP430 tools for BSL support
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-msp430-tools
  • http://pythonhosted.org/python-msp430-tools/commandline_tools.html#msp430-bsl5
• Run Wine on linux to support the simple .exe
• Roll our own BSL support for cross-platform

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Adding notes, testing didn't go so well as the Python module "python-msp430-tools" contains many bugs and broken functionality. I worked around some bugs but others are more involved but seemingly documented (maintainers not maintaining bug fixes anymore). For now the long term solution may be fixing this toolset but short term may be best to just investigate using WINE to run the .exe TI supplied BSL program.

Python-Tool-Installation-Notes.pdf