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Welcome to Libre-SOC
- We're building a chip. A fast chip. A safe chip. A trusted chip.
+ We're building a chip. A fast chip. A safe chip. A trusted chip.
+
- A chip with lots of peripherals. And a VPU. And a 3D GPU...
+ A chip with lots of peripherals. And it's a VPU. And it's a 3D GPU...
+
- Oh and here, have the source code...
+ Oh and here, have the
+ Libre-SOC source code...
+
@@ -32,7 +36,6 @@ providing our own Free/Libre drivers. Easy as 1, 2, 3!
A few names come to mind:
-
-
# Our Team
-We are proud of our talented and diverse [team](about_us).
+We are proud of our talented and diverse [team](about_us)
+located all across the world: UK US Canada Germany Greece India
+Kuwait.
# Our sponsors and partners
+* [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) who have very kindly sponsored us with
+ over EUR 550,000 in various separate grants.
+* [NGI POINTER](https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-pointer/) who have
+ sponsored us with a EUR 200,000 Horizon 2020 Grant.
+* [Mythic Beasts](http://mythic-beasts.com) who don't overcommit on
+ their VPS allocations (no memory ballooning), and put servers on
+ the fastest backbone Internet points.
* [Purism](http://puri.sm) donates to us through [NLNet](nlnet)
charitable gifting
* [Raptor CS](http://raptorcs.com) has given us access to a powerful
@@ -61,8 +71,6 @@ We are proud of our talented and diverse [team](about_us).
interface (more to come)
* [MarketNext](http://marketnext.org) is helping us connect to developer
resources in Emerging markets, for completion of NLNet-funded tasks.
- See the upcoming [Hackathon](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Px6eakWja3Q"),
- deadline May 15th
* The [[PowerPC Notebook]] Project
* [RED Semiconductor](http://redsemiconductor.com) is the commercial realisation of Libre-SOC technology that respects and actively supports Libre principles in its business objectives.
* [[fed4fire]] for supercomputer access for verilator simulations,
@@ -85,9 +93,13 @@ just get in touch on the list, there is plenty to do.
1. First, join the
[mailing list](http://lists.libre-soc.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-soc-dev),
- introduce yourself (people will happily say "hello" back") and
- the Freenode IRC channel
- [#libre-soc](https://libre-soc.org/irclog/latest.log.html).
+ introduce yourself (people will happily say "hello" back) and
+ the Libera IRC channel
+ (#libre-soc at irc.libera.chat port 6697, see
+https://libera.chat/guides/connect),
+ it's also accessible via Libera.Chat's Matrix Bridge
+ (`#libre-soc:libera.chat`)
+ [logs here](https://libre-soc.org/irclog/latest.log.html).
Read through
[recent posts](http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/)
and the [[charter]], ask questions if you have any and let everyone know,
@@ -114,38 +126,16 @@ Also note that you can edit this wiki. You can experiment in the [[Sandbox]].
## Quick peek at the code
-Here is an example process of how to play with the soc code. The last
-step you will have needed to install yosys:
-
- pip3 install virtualenv requests
- mkdir ~/.virtualenvs && cd ~/.virtualenvs
- python3 -m venv libresoc
- source ~/.virtualenvs/libresoc/bin/activate
-
- cd ~; mkdir libresoc; cd libresoc
- git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/nmigen.git
- git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/nmigen-soc.git
- git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/nmutil.git
- git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/c4m-jtag.git
- git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/ieee754fpu.git
- git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/soc.git
-
- cd nmigen; python setup.py develop; cd ..
- cd nmigen-soc; python setup.py develop; cd ..
- cd c4m-jtag; python setup.py develop; cd ..
- cd nmutil; make install; cd ..
- cd ieee754fpu; make install; cd ..
- cd soc; make gitupdate; make develop
-
- python3 src/soc/decoder/power_decoder.py
- yosys -p "read_ilang decoder.il; show dec31"
-
The full install process may be automated using scripts found
here: