On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:46 AM Steffen Möller wrote: > I had a look and like the device. Conceptionally, it would be very > interesting to learn if you can build the firmware for the Spartan-3 > also with Debian. It should be possible with Yosys. I do not mean that > you need to Open Source your firmware, but just to know that others > could come up with their own and use that - would be nice, maybe you > could open source some parts of that so that the driver could be reused > - you get the idea.
The tarball already includes the firmware source in *.vhd and other files, presumably under the same license as the rest of the package, but I cannot find any indication in the tarball that this package is under the GPL though (except for the embedded code copy of the MIDAS XML Library), but the website does say GPLv3. Looks like Yosys doesn't yet fully support Spartan-3: https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys/issues/448 SymbiFlow are working on Xilinx Artix 7-Series FPGAs, perhaps they could eventually support Xilinx Spartan-3 too. https://symbiflow.github.io/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
