Please simplify contributor experiense

[Enelar]

Its hard to understand how i could help you, and where i could start.
Since you developing in GPLv3 please make your work public: open issues and branches.
Right now i absolutely have no idea how to contribute, which language you use and more.
Thanks.

[asicguy]

This is my first use of github. The IP is developed using verilog and is mostly complete, but does need some work to make it a little more generic. More important is Xorg drivers for it. I believe I did make it public, but please let me know if I didn't.

[Enelar]

Whoa, now i see why i didn't understand your repository. Hardware. Too deep in low-level for me. My edge its "ports" and "tact's". So, maybe i could help you with drivers, but i cant be sure of it.

[asicguy]

I'll have the docs up later today if you want to take a look. Drivers are severely lacking if you do wish to help. it might be a little tough as you'd probably need an FPGA developer kit to actually run X and develop the driver. I think I'm still a little ways away from the ability to support that.

[kallisti5]

This looks super interesting. Any recommendations on easy / cheap FPGA environment to run this on? I've written graphics drivers (Radeon HD) but have been looking for an open source card to write for. I always thought it would be a great project to use off the shelf parts to construct a modern "digital only" graphics card. Was looking at 2D via CPLD, but always got lost in the complexity :-)

Too bad i'm on the software side more and don't have any verilog experience.

[ianhan]

I've got the hardware, and I've been doing FPGA stuff for a long time, and
even I don't know where to start. A sample board package (or at least a
description if there is an existing one) would be good.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Alexander von Gluck IV <
[email protected]> wrote:

This looks super interesting. Any recommendations on easy / cheap FPGA
environment to run this on? I've written graphics drivers (Radeon HD) but
have been looking for an open source card to write for. I always thought it
would be a great project to use off the shelf parts to construct a modern
"digital only" graphics card. Was looking at 2D via CPLD, but always got
lost in the complexity :-)

Too bad i'm on the software side more and don't have any verilog
experience.

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[kallisti5]

Check #4. I wonder if the project could move to open source tools? (vs modelsim)

[ianhan]

There are no open source tools that can actually target real hardware at a
useful level, unfortunately.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Alexander von Gluck IV <
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Check #4 #4. I wonder if the
project could move to open source tools? (vs modelsim)

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[kallisti5]

Really? iverilog has an FPGA target.

[ianhan]

No, it's a simulator.
On Oct 21, 2014 2:04 PM, "Alexander von Gluck IV" [email protected]
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Really? iverilog has an FPGA target.

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[kallisti5]

Ah. So it would need to target vhdl? Even if the commercial tools are needed at this time to do the build.. Getting as much as possible working with open source would be handy

[ianhan]

The commercial tools are free. VHDL and verilog both serve the same purpose
during development - they are languages which are used to describe behavior
which is synthesized into a configuration for a particular chip by the tool
chains. They can also be used under simulation, which is what Icarus
Verilog does. I'm a fan of open-source but aside from that and GTKWave
there aren't many useful tools out there. The tool chains are free from the
companies making the chips which really is good enough. I'll try and send
some links later with background material.
On Oct 21, 2014 2:21 PM, "Alexander von Gluck IV" [email protected]
wrote:

Ah. So it would need to target vhdl? Even if the commercial tools are
needed at this time to do the build.. Getting as much as possible working
with open source would be handy

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[kallisti5]

ianhan: Thanks for clearing that up. I've done some additional research into FPGA's and get them a bit better :-) I was mostly reaching for what to call the compiled gate configurations. verilog is a logic description language generally used in the US, VHDL is the same used in europe.