Bug#1037306: ITP: apycula -- Tools to generate Gowin FPGA bitstreams

[Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org>]

Hi Simon,

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 10:58:12AM +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> > We need this to enable nextpnr support for Gowin FPGAs in Debian. I'm
> > intending to maintain this within the Debian Electronics Team like the
> > similar fpga-icestorm package.
> 
> I'd be interested in sponsoring nextpnr related packages.

Excellent.

The package is up on mentors and the git repo is in the electronics-team salsa team:

    https://mentors.debian.net/package/apycula/
    https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/apycula

have a look.

There is one thing with this package I'm not quite sure about. The Apicula
project builds the "chipdb" bitstream structure information automatically
using the (proprietary) vendor toolchain with a fuzzing based approach. The
output of this is then published as the apycula pypi package (what I'm
packaging here) which embeds this information in (binary) pickel files.

I'm not sure what the DFSG implications of this are. Is it acceptable to
use the pypi package as the starting point?

Thanks,
--Daniel