On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
In summary:
- Compiling the Verilog source code to a bitstream requires highly
proprietary tools and will never be possible in Fedora.
- Writing the bitstream to the FPGA is possible with GPL tools.
- There are currently some proprietary bits in the bitstream, but I
hope those will be removed at some point.
Obviously the last point makes this moot right now, but assuming that
can be fixed, here is my question: Can we package these bitstream
files in Fedora? It would allow a more immediate out-of-the-box
experience where you just plug in the development kit and go.
You probably want to take this to the fedora-legal list. I would
recommend approaching it from the firmware exception viewpoint, and
treating bitstreams as such.
josh