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> But in this FPGA design domain, the situation of free design is > still not as mature as free software. There are still lots of > non-free pieces, from vendor’s tool chain to the vendor’s non-free > [design] cores. I wrote about this problem in https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html hoping it would encourage people to make progress in the field of freeing FPGA tools. It is not easy -- it requires either designing (and mass-producing) new FPGAa, or reverse engineering. > If FSF could push further (at least for the FPGA type of > hardware), I think that will make the tech more open/free from the > point view of full stack. Beyond hoping to inspire volunteers, what can we do? We don't have money to spend. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
