[Fedora-packaging] Re: Packaging FPGA bitstreams
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> writes:
- Compiling the Verilog source code to a bitstream requires highly
proprietary tools and will never be possible in Fedora.
Depending on what you actually consider these data to be, this should be
somewhat covered by:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_pregenerated_code
Alternately, this stuff seems to be something we could consider to be
firmware with the added benefit that we have source.
- Writing the bitstream to the FPGA is possible with GPL tools.
That's always nice. Otherwise I wouldn't see the use of packaging a
random binary blob that you can't actually use for anything.
- There are currently some proprietary bits in the bitstream, but I
hope those will be removed at some point.
If considered "firmware", this might not even be an issue depending on
the actual license. I don't know if we've ever had to address the
question of proprietary firmware for which we have source. That's
probably a question for the legal list.
- J<