On 5/10/06, josephhenryblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The good news is that free Starter version of ispLever will soon support the ECP2, which should enable students and those who have retired to contribute. Perhaps some progress can be made with running it on Wine.
This'll be at a point when we have product to sell. Having real hardware will show we're serious and capable, which will get us the attention we need. I'm sure the WINE people will help. If Lattice are smart, they'll help with the WINE effort; they'll want to minimize the pressure within the community to try to reverse engineer their FPGAs and develop open source P&R tools. (Although if I just barely grasp simulated annealing, and I've studied AI, then I'm sure most other people are unfamiliar with it as well.) It's hard to say how much money they spend on developing synthesis tools versus how much they profit from it versus how much they profit from hardware. It might save them money in the long run to rely on the FOSS community. It might not. Either way, hardware is a bit of a gray area wrt Free Software, and I don't want to screw with Lattice's business model or impact their profitability. We need them more than they need us (for now). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
