24 Nov
2015
24 Nov
'15
1:42 p.m.
> So far, I haven't found anything that says
that the code for the
> FPGA is open source / documented.
(I assume there's a "not"
missing after the "is")
I think mouse was referring to the toolchain,
structure of and
interface to the FPGA itself, etc. I.e. an open FPGA product.
Yes. I consider it important for the custom CPU's definition to be
open. But that's not what I was really interested in; I haven't used
Oberon and don't really expect to start.
What I was really interested in was whether the FPGA itself was open.
If so, I definitely would have wanted to pick up the hardware, because
I would love to experiment with an FPGA - but I am _not_ going to put
up with running a vendor binary blob (which probably won't even run on
my machines) to get an undocumented blob to throw at the hardware.
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