[fpga-miniconf] Major merges! -- Lots of new features....

[Tim 'mithro' Ansell]

Hi Jason (and anyone else reading this),

Most of the discussion around LiteX happens on the #timvideos IRC channel
(on freenode) at the moment. I would highly recommend lurking if you are
already on IRC.

There are a couple of low traffic mailing lists which might be good to join,
 * HDMI2USB Mailing list -- The LiteX-BuildEnv we used at the hackfest was
developed for the HDMI2USB project, so that list could be useful ->
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hdmi2usb
 * FuPy Mailing List -- If you are interested in running MicroPython on
LiteX, then the FuPy mailing list should be interesting ->
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fupy
 * Linux on LiteX Mailing List -- If you are interested in running Linux on
LiteX, then the Linux on LiteX mailing list should be interesting ->
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linux-litex

I will probably create a "litex-buildenv" mailing list sometime in the near
future, but for the moment it doesn't exist. Will announce it here if I do.

For my information, Jason -- what are you most interested in helping out?

A couple of areas we really could use help are;
 (a) Improving both the Linux drivers for LiteX peripherals and QEmu
emulation of LiteX peripherals (plus getting them upstream).
 (b) Now the FPGA Miniconf is over, the prework instructions need to also
be moved from the Google Doc at https://j.mp/pre-fpga-lca2018 into the wiki
here -> https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki and made more
generic (IE not specific to the Digilent Arty board).
 (c) Get all the pmod peripherals in the Miniconf's "Goodie" pack working
with good examples.
 (d) Clean up and rewrite of the shell scripts + makefile + Python script
mess with something cleaner and more robust (maybe something with meson or
waf, bitbake, docker, etc).

Looking forward to any contribution you are able to make but understand if
it you don't end up with time to do anything!

Tim 'mithro' Ansell



On 28 January 2018 at 15:01, Jason Ball <jason at ball.net> wrote:

> Thanks Tim.
>
> Is there an ongoing discussion list for the litex/gateway development at
> all ?   I'm interested in contributing here when possible and I have
> something useful to contribute.
>
> Cheers
> J.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Tim 'mithro' Ansell <me at mith.ro> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Before the FPGA Miniconf we were holding off doing some major merges into
>> litex-buildenv.
>>
>> Now the miniconf is over, we have now in the process of doing them. These
>> merges will add;
>>
>>  * Support for Python 3.6 (rather than having to downgrade to Python 3.5)
>>  * Support for a large number of new boards from Numato (thanks to Rohit
>> and Ewen's work!)
>>  * Support for RISC-V 32 (for bare metal and soon micropython)
>>  * Improve Linux networking support.
>>
>> These are lots of cool new features but might mean you have a big amount
>> to pull when updating.
>>
>> Tim 'mithro' Ansell
>>
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>>
>>
>
>
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