Bug#686949: ITP: fpgatools -- A small independent command line FPGA utilities, no GUI plain C, text-based file formats. convert floorplan from/to bitstream.

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Xiangfu Liu <xiangfu@sharism.cc> writes:
>   Description     : A small independent command line FPGA utilities, no GUI.
> plain C, no C++, text-based file formats. convert floorplan from/to
> bitstream.

Sounds interesting but the description is bit generic. What does this
tool let me to do? Are there still non-free tools needed to program FPGA
chips? (I assume yes, it'd be good to document these).