From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:14:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: add note about reproduceability
X-Git-Tag: DRAFT_SVP64_0_1~624
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a2a73fc0ba1003e27842bf783bde53927c9de72;p=libreriscv.git

add note about reproduceability
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diff --git a/HDL_workflow/devscripts.mdwn b/HDL_workflow/devscripts.mdwn
index 0648ee1cb..3a56000d0 100644
--- a/HDL_workflow/devscripts.mdwn
+++ b/HDL_workflow/devscripts.mdwn
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ the dev-env-setup repository is cloned twice, once to get the chroot
 script and a second time to use scripts *inside* the chroot. Feel free
 to simply copy the repository into the chroot to save bandwidth.
 
+Note: these scripts assume that you are using debian/10 and that you
+understand and accept why we have standardised on that as an OS
+(reproduceability and minimising "support").  If you use anything
+different it risks creating non-reproducible HDL. It's not about
+"what's the favurite OS", it's about making sure that two developers
+can produce the **exact** same GDS-II files.
+
     $ git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/dev-env-setup.git
     $ cd dev-env-setup
     $ sudo bash