[libre-riscv-dev] partitioned signals and Cat

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

well, dang, i just realised that with Cat and changing the size of Signals
in general by fixed amounts, partitioning got *seriously* complicated.

take for example the seemingly innocuous task of extending a Signal by 2
bits using Cat(x, 0, 0)

this is really straightforward to assign to another Signal that is 2 bits
longer.  length += 2.

for a PartitionedSignal that goes out the window, because if the partitions
are open, it's a 64 + 2 bit Signal, and if the partitions are closed, it's
8x 8+2 bit Signals.

some serious thought is going to have to go into this.  possibly to the
extent of mirroring the nmigen ArrayProxy infrastructure.

any ideas?

l.



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