Bug#826774: ITP: genwqe-user -- A hardware accelerated version of zLib using PCIe with FPGA
Hello Paul,
On 06/08/2016 11:29 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> n Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Breno Leitao wrote:
>
>> Description : A hardware accelerated version of zLib using PCIe with FPGA
> ...
>> This package dependes on a specific PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter.
>
> FPGA devices usually require proprietary software to be able to create
> a bitstream for and upload to the device. Is that the case here?
That is correct. The bitstream is created with Altera Tools. Yes, they are vandor
specific and proprietary.
Is this a problem for this ITP?
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