Debian FPGA toolchain update and testing (Was: Bug#1068174: yosys: Please package the latest upstream release)

[Daniel Gröber]

Hi Philipp,

Thanks for reaching out, I rely on users to ask for FPGA toolchain updates
since I like to errr on the side of "keep the working version" with
electronics stuff until I have a reason to break it out and test it myself.

Note to self: I almost missed your email due to pre-vacation crunch.
Really need to teach my sieve scripts to flag bug mails for my packages :)

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 11:48:16AM +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> I use yosys to synthesize for the iCE40UP and GateMate FPGAs. IMO, the
> current upstream release 0.38 has substantial improvements over the 0.33
> release currently in Debian.

Neat, are the GateMates finally available on the open market then? I'd love
to get my hands on some dev hardware.

Are you open to doing some testing for the new package version once I get
around to putting it together? I can do end-to-end testing on ICE40(HX) and
(probably) GW1N (if I can figure out how to flash this thing) maybe
@Jonathan (in CC) can cover ECP5 and you could do ICE40UP and GateMate?

I've been meaning to look into what we could use for testing beyond simple
blinkies. Perhaps some CPU? I'd like to have something that can run
internal consistency checks. If anyone has any ideas let me know.

Thanks,
--Daniel
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