[libre-riscv-dev] HDL workflow page

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:51 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On 1/23/20, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We should probably add in building simple-soft-float for use from Python
> > assuming we're going to still use it for testing purposes.
> >
> > Note that the version of Rust bundled with Debian will not work since the
> > Python bindings library I used requires a nightly version of Rust.
>
> ok so you should see a section i added an hour ago to the page,
> linking to the ieee754fpu readme, would it be best to update that
> readme with the build instructions, or put thrm in HDLWF itself?
>
> building rust, and those libraries, it's quite a lot, isn't it.  hmmm
> could it be scripted? am just thinking out loud.  if it's scripted
> then that's ok to mention in HDLWF, "run this script and it will get
> nightly rustlang, simple-soft-float and the python bindings for you"
>
> what do you think?

Maybe it would be better to just build a binary x86_64 wheel that
people can download, that seems much simpler. If they want to build it
themselves, they can follow the instructions in simple-soft-float's
readme.

Jacob