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

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I have a board, and I can do testing if I don't forget about it.
Feel free to ping me when the package is ready.


Jonathan