Bug#1068174: yosys: Please package the latest upstream release

[Tarik Graba]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:48:16 +0200 Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de> wrote:
> Package: yosys
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: pkk at spth.de
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 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. In particular, I use the improved support for abc9 and
> SystemVerilog. I currently have upstream yosys installed, but it would be nice
> to be able to just use the Debian package instead.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Philipp
>
Hi,

Just an additional argument for upgrading yosys to a recent version.

There is a promising SystemVerilog frontend plugin "yosys-slang" 
(https://github.com/povik/yosys-slang) that has even be used for real 
asic tapeout (http://asic.ethz.ch/2024/MLEM.html).

Because of changes in yosys internal API it only supports yosys version 
above 0.44 (yosys 0.49 was release this week).

Also, it would be nice to consider packaging this plugin (even if 
actually it is not very mature).

Tarik