[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1028137: Bug#1028137: nextpnr: Support for more FPGA architectures (esp. ECP5)

[Daniel Gröber]

Hi Jonathan,

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 06:01:11PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> to increase the usefulness of nextpnr in Debian, it would be nice to
> package build nextpnr for more FPGA architectures, in addition to iCE40.
> ECP5 comes to mind, because it seems to be fairly usable by now.

I don't have an ECP5 devboard but what I have rediscovered recently is a
Tang Nano 9k (Gowin GW1N) devboard. Hence I've been working on enabling
gowin support. I've got project apicula and nextpnr packaged already but
I'm waiting on a sponsor.

In the meantime I'm having a look at prjtrellis too, but since I don't have
any testing hardware I was wondering if you'd be able to do testing once I
finish packaging?

--Daniel