On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 15:09 +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I probably do not understand this correctly, but isn't a > pre-configured card usable by any Linux install for e.g. accelerated > zlib compression and decompression. > As in this package is not useless without the Altera toolchain, and > enables software to execute algorithms with hardware acceleration - > isn't it not dissimilar to e.g. openssl engines or mesa? and thus can > live in main? > Or does one supposed to upload bitstream onto the cards on every boot? > Like e.g. non-free/intel-microcode package?
It wasn't clear from the ITP what the situation was, but I guess main sounds reasonable if there is no FPGA bitstream being compiled during the package build. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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