Re: Packaging FPGA bitstreams

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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:28:38PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Unfortunately to compile the source code to a bitstream, things get
> > very proprietary.  For Xilinx, you have to install their proprietary
> > compiler, Vivado.  It's not just proprietary but it has node-locked
> > licensing so it's user-hostile too.
> 
> So this is a binary blob that cannot be rebuilt with Free Software, and thus 
> not allowed in Fedora.

We ship firmware so this is not (necessarily) true.

Rich.

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