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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] patch: vhd2vl and fedora
by Chitlesh GOORAH 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hello Larry, Thanks for keeping the vhd2vl contents up to date. I'm trying to include vhd2vl into fedora : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476387 The latest bison seems to be very strict, thereby vhd2vl's build fails. Below you will find a minor patch which will correct the missing ";". http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/vhd2vl.spec http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/vhd2vl-typo.patch You have mentioned Steve Haynal has an unreleased v2.1. Can you update the current v2.0 package so that I can package it for fedora ? Thank you, Chitlesh

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Fedora-electronic-lab-list
by Aniruddha 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Dear Mr. Goorah; With lots of thanks for helping me and keeping me move ahead with problems , your ideas were great. I made an attempt for yum update (in which there were missing discrepencies previously) this Sunday morning and it did give an update of 144MB which solved my problem of not being able to reach NTFS drives.I did not clean all. Should I therefore keep update processes running in future? I would also like to be any help I could do for this society, although I am not an linux literate, or programmer. Thanking You ANIRUDDHA BANERJEE -----Original Message----- From: fedora-electronic-lab-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-electronic-lab-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of fedora-electronic-lab-list-request(a)redhat.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:30 PM To: fedora-electronic-lab-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Fedora-electronic-lab-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 11 Send Fedora-electronic-lab-list mailing list submissions to fedora-electronic-lab-list(a)redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to fedora-electronic-lab-list-request(a)redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at fedora-electronic-lab-list-owner(a)redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Fedora-electronic-lab-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: FW: Fedora-electronic-lab-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 9 (Chitlesh GOORAH) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:21:18 +0100 From: "Chitlesh GOORAH" <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org> Subject: Re: [Fedora-electronic-lab-list] FW: Fedora-electronic-lab-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 9 To: fedora-electronic-lab-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <13dbfe4f0812130321g5126cbbdu1f85fef94d61fa43(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Aniruddha <aniruddhabnj(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I tried an update but it failed says > kpackage has missing dependencies. Please help as I am eager to work in fel > environment. try, this is should work: su - (root password) yum clean all yum update Chitlesh ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fedora-electronic-lab-list mailing list Fedora-electronic-lab-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list End of Fedora-electronic-lab-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 11 *********************************************************

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] FW: Fedora-electronic-lab-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 9
by Aniruddha 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Dear Sir; Thanking you for your kind suggestions I would like to add that I had tried your idea of setting a new user with the same results. Moreover I had tried to login irc forum but neither Mozilla nor konquerer could connect and reflecting format not supported. I even noted that kpackage is bringing in any new updates. Could you please suggest some other course of action . As I not started anything yet I can go back to default settings if there is any command.I tried an update but it failed says kpackage has missing dependencies. Please help as I am eager to work in fel environment. Thanks in advance ANIRUDDHA BANERJEE On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Aniruddha wrote: > Dear All; > I had installed FEL in my hard drive and was able to do things till 6th > December Sunday. After I took the updates on 6th morning I am not being able > to mount the other partitions in my computer, neither from dolphin or from > terminal mount process. The other drives are formatted in NTFS and was able > to see and work on them before. > If I open the drives forcefully from laching files option under multimedia I > can open the drives in dolphin but my sound card is not responding. > Please help . I didn't take yesterdays update. > As I am new in linux I would prefer a step by step discussion of the > process, of hoe can I do it. > Thanks in advance. > ANIRUDDHA BANERJEE Hello Aniruddha, I have looked at the fedora-users-mailing list and no one are complaining about the issues you are having. I'll recommend you to accept the updates nevertheless as they fix numerous items on fedora. Can you create another user on your fedora, and try to login under that user. Afterwards, try to see whether you are having the same issues or not. If you want live support, I'll recommend you to join the channel #fedora on irc.freenode.net. People on that channel will help you troubleshoot it live with you. Kind regards, Chitlesh

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] comments: EDA Rescue Plan
by Chitlesh GOORAH 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hello Clive Maxfield, I have just read your post [1] "EDA Rescue Plan", which got my attention. However, like you I was more interested on what are the EDA tools Blue Pearl are proposing. Since you mentioned that you are constantly being surprised to discover established EDA vendors, let me introduce you to "Fedora Electronic Lab". [2] Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL), being a subset of the Fedora Project, strives to give users the best experience with opensource EDA tools. Each 6 months, the Fedora Project releases a new version of our Linux distribution "Fedora", together with a special LiveDVD dedicated for electronics. This LiveDVD available for free is intended to serve as an electronic simulation platform, on which users can work on their ASIC design, embedded design,.. . While Fedora is engineered by Red Hat Inc. (the leader in Entreprise Linux) together with the community, our users benefit freely the cutting-edge technologies Red Hat is working on their RHEL 6. Our latest statistics proved that Fedora has more than 9.5 million users around the world and FEL has at least 1% of the user share. We (as non-profit community members) packaged opensource tools and work with their developers to ensure interoperability between our tools and that our users can deploy quickly and efficiently with our mature RPM/YUM deployment mechanism. In a matter of fact, we also provide marketing facilities as much as I can for those developers. (This email is an example). The developers of FEL's tools are working hard to keep their applications up-to-date with such a technological race in the EDA world. We don't claim to be in competition with Synopsys or Cadence, however we follow them closely and see how we can satisfy the needs of our users (end-users, students, lecturers, ..) Not only we provide EDA tools for free, but also a Linux Operating system which is the upstream of Red Hat Entreprise Linux. While mostly all ASIC design centers run RHEL for their Cadence and Synopsys tools, we believe our users will enjoy the same professional experience while designing their chips or embedded code on Fedora Electronic Lab. I would appreciate if you could spare some time writing a post about Fedora Electronic Lab. Since we are a non-profit organization, your readers would be interested in our EDA solutions whether the latter suits their personal use or deployment in an academic institutions. I welcome you to visit FEL's website at [2] and if there are any way we can assist you please let me know. [1]: http://www.pldesignline.com/212300434 [2]: http://chitlesh.fedoraproject.org/FEL [3]: http://fedoraproject.org Kind Regards, Chitlesh GOORAH

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Fedora-electronic-lab-list
by Aniruddha 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Dear All; I had installed FEL in my hard drive and was able to do things till 6th December Sunday. After I took the updates on 6th morning I am not being able to mount the other partitions in my computer, neither from dolphin or from terminal mount process. The other drives are formatted in NTFS and was able to see and work on them before. If I open the drives forcefully from laching files option under multimedia I can open the drives in dolphin but my sound card is not responding. Please help . I didn't take yesterdays update. As I am new in linux I would prefer a step by step discussion of the process, of hoe can I do it. Thanks in advance. ANIRUDDHA BANERJEE

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] HC(s)12 Microcontrollers
by Brennan Ashton 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, I would be interested in helping get support for the Freescale HC(s)12 microcontroller support into Fedora. As part of this I see packaging the gcc cross compiler (which I have done non officially), packaging some of the programmer tools, doing some worth with Eclipse so you can create a hcs12 project, and possibly doing some work with gdb support. Is there interest in this? There is a fare amount of work that needs to be done to make this happen, and help would be appreciated. --Brennan Ashton

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Re: [Fedora-mentors-list] Self-introduction and in need of some guidance.
by Chitlesh GOORAH 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Lionel Fernandes wrote: > Ok sure. It might be a good starting point. So I should test the examples > that are in the packages of the FEL LiveDVD, correct? > I'll try to do it as soon as I can. > Hello Lionel, Every FEL packages in the Livedvd are available on Fedora-10. If you have F-10, there is no need to download the livedvd. I would appreciate if you could install: - netgen - magic-doc - xcircuit - irsim - gnucap - toped - ngspice - alliance - gtkwave - ghdl - freehdl - qucs - octave-forge - qtoctave Then have a look at their respective /usr/share/doc Then try to run the examples. It would be nice to run "rpmlint" again for each. I would appreciate if you could tabulate all your difficulties or findings in the following table: Application | Version | Documentation defects | Examples defects | Other comments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | Another idea would be having a look at opensuse, ubuntu and debian bugzilla/launchpad to see if they have open bugs about the above tools. Then point out if our fedora packages are subjected to those bugs. Unfortunately, these distributions don't send their patches to upstream. Once you are done, I'll contact every upstream to inform them about some eventual changes that need to be done. Cheers, Chitlesh

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] FEL needs your help
by Chitlesh GOORAH 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hello Fedora Marketing, As you are all already familiar with FEL, I'll skip the introduction. For F-10 FEL development, Aanjhaan and Thibault joined me to maintain FEL, but now they are both very busy. I have many plans and many features for F-11 FEL, but alone (with very little time) I would have to reduce my participation as an ambassador, mentor, package reviewer and support for other opensource communities. I am going to meet (on my own expenses) : * some automotive engineers next weekend to see how Fedora can propose a portfolio "electronic design" for the automotive industry. (e.g. doing measurements: roll, pitch, yaw ...) * some XMOS designers to see how existing opensource tools can embrace XMOS support (sometimes in January). As you can see, I'm looking forward to elevate Fedora status for professional production purposes. If I succeed, I assume that there will many companies, educational institutions and end-users who will be deploying more than 5 Fedora installations at ONE time. This is my fedora marketing strategy. If I have time EPEL repository can also benefit from this, thereby CentOS/RHEL users will also be happy. I would appreciate if ambassadors could contact their local universities (Electronic department, to be precised), and inform them about Fedora's investment in the electronic design community. http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/10/fel-flyer-f10.pdf You will find FEL todo list here (which will be updated with time): http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/devel/FEL_devel_timeline.html So if you think someone could help with Fedora electronic portfolio, please do introduce him/her to FEL's mailing list. I have also another objective: to bring various upstream closer and try to encourage them not to re-invent the wheel but focus on providing industry-class solutions for the opensource community. Of course, fedora will benefit from it first. If time allows, I'll also engage myself (as I promised to Tom Callaway) with some upstream developers to open their software into a GPL-compatible license. So if you know someone with legal skills, please welcome him/her to join the Fedora family. If you know a local blogger about electronics, please propose them to write a blog post about "Fedora and its electronic portfolio". Any help will be greatly appreciated. thank you. Kind regards, Chitlesh

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] an IDE for hardware design ?
by Chitlesh GOORAH 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hello there, I have been thinking about what could ease designers' frustrations on getting a good IDE for digital hardware design. Personally, I do everything with kate, but I have seen a growing number of eclipse deployment by various design centres. In search to make FEL: - more professional - more easily usable by users, I think it is time to think about some IDE possibilities for FEL. What are your thoughts about it ? any plugin, tool you might recommend ? Currently, I'm looking forward to eclipse + some plugins(that need to be packaged) Let's do some brain storming ! Chitlesh.

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[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] systemverilog
by Chitlesh GOORAH 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hello there, can you point out some opensource systemverilog tool out there ? thanks. Chitlesh

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