[Libre-soc-dev] Final notice

[Michiel Leenaars]

Dear Luke,

if you still want to make a new payment request for project 2021-02-052 (The Libre-SOC Gigabit Router) and project 2021-08-071 ("Libre-SOC Cavatools: Power ISA Simulator"), we advise you to do so at very short notice. We are currently closing the books, and after tomorrow (August 30th 2024) at noon CEST, we will no longer accept any new payment requests for these projects. We will also not enter into more arguments.

We have noted with gratitude that in recent days various people have stepped in to help you complete these projects to the best of their abilities, and in particular have worked on providing a partial overview of the outcomes at:

- https://libre-soc.org/crypto_router_asic
- https://libre-soc.org/docs/pypowersim

This has certainly made a difference in our ability to understand what happened in the two projects, though we are still not sure how these texts map precisely on all of the tasks defined within their respective plans. Pypowersim in particular is very much underdocumented and hard to find at present still - the README from the openpower-isa monorepo doesn't even mention it exists. How it compares to Cavatools, and what functionality is implemented is missing. We are for instance also not clear how the pypowersym guide relates to the current state of task 984 (https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984), as concrete outcomes for that are still lacking.

Would you therefore be so kind to put in separate claims for each of the remaining individual tasks, and provide the relevant direct links for each alongside your payment request? Please add any remaining information you have that can help to review the work efficiently. We apologise for the extra work this may cause, but the alternative is to not offer you the opportunity to still claim (part of the budget).

Kind regards,
Michiel Leenaars