Bug#826774: ITP: genwqe-user -- A hardware accelerated version of zLib using PCIe with FPGA
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:28:32 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 11:15 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote:
>
> > That is correct. The bitstream is created with Altera Tools. Yes,
> > they are vandor specific and proprietary.
> >
> > Is this a problem for this ITP?
>
> I assume this means the package will have to go to contrib.
>
I probably do not understand this correctly, but isn't a
pre-configured card usable by any Linux install for e.g. accelerated
zlib compression and decompression.
As in this package is not useless without the Altera toolchain, and
enables software to execute algorithms with hardware acceleration -
isn't it not dissimilar to e.g. openssl engines or mesa? and thus can
live in main?
Or does one supposed to upload bitstream onto the cards on every boot?
Like e.g. non-free/intel-microcode package?
Regards,
Dimitri.
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