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I might be missing something, but this seems awfully light on any real technical details, beyond "we intend to use this tech to create the HDL to make the chip
by spijdar 6y ago
I might be missing something, but this seems awfully light on any real technical details, beyond "we intend to use this tech to create the HDL to make the chip with", and some rather high level strategic goals for the chip. Is there any work to show yet?
Glancing through the source repos, it looks like there's a decent amount of code written, so why not mention it or what it's doing so far? It looks at least somewhat non-trivial, so surely there's at least a basic demonstration.
- lkcl 6y agowe're a rather small technically-focussed team, 80% of us with Asperger's (!). right now, we can either focus on making the site look pretty, or we can focus on "getting it done". if you'd like to see what was done up until around Nov 2020, i've a video of the first boot of the litex BIOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QmWro9BSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QmWro9BSE for example. however what would be really helpful would be offers of assistance. we've got funds available, so that's not a "we're looking exclusively for volunteers" thing second answer: there appears not to be very much to show for it because we had to stop actual "development" work and do several months of planning on the Vectorisation system. however we couldn't start that unless we had a full and proper understanding of OpenPOWER, which was why we first had to do a basic OpenPOWER v3.0B core, and that's what's demo'd in the video. hope that helps.
- spijdar 6y agoAwesome, thanks for the info and video :) Really hoping this project succeeds. Maybe sometime I'll get a chance to work/play around with it a bit myself.