On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@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 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
