Re: [oc] FPGA with free tools?

[Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de>]

Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org> writes:

> Now while free (as in beer and speech) VHDL synthesis software seems
> to be available under Linux, the situation looks much worse for actual
> FPGA fitting and configuration bitstream generation.  Currently, the
> only chance I see is using the free-as-in-beer, closed-source,
> windows-only tools provided by the manufacturers (Quartus II Web
> Edition, ISE WebPACK, etc.).

<http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/VirtexTools/> looks like a project
in that direction. The subthread starting with
<6u4rbundwm.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> is also interesting.

Cheers,
  Colin

PS: Funny, I just saw you this weekend talking about DirectFB.
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