On 5/18/05, Ulf Ochsenfahrt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Opening the Verilog to a "select" number of people is a chicken-and-egg > problem (if the code is supposed to be closed). You only want to give it > to people who are likely to contribute, but you only know after they > contributed which they can only do if they have the code. > > Of course, you might look at the people who are contributing > documentation or software (or both), but then again, is it likely that > these are "experienced hardware hackers"? I doubt it.
There are the PCI and VGA controllers, which are being developed under LGPL, that people can contribute to. Patrick McNamara has already been incredibly productive in that area, although he's not a hardware designer. Secondly, there are opportunities to develop other sorts of hardware for the prototype board, and people who author good, synthesizable code for that will get a lot of attention. BTW, I agree with everything else you said. There won't be many hardware designers who appear, but I expect there will be a few, and there will be opportunities for them to prove themselves. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
