[libre-riscv-dev] xdc2020

[whygee at f-cpu.org]

On 2020-07-04 10:13, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 14:56 -0700, Jacob Lifshay wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 14:37 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 
>> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > libre :)  it's not called open-soc
>> 
>> FOSS for hardware, maybe FOSH?
> 
>   Just a small comment in passing, from our ASIC end point of view,
>   we try to promote the term "Free Silicon". This covers mostly the
>   tools, maybe not what you do with them, and for an X conference...
> 
>   Best regards,

I can hear the voice of Richard Stallman ranting and fuming from here 
:-D

"Free silicon" is not accurate : the silicon itself is not free, it's 
hardware.

"Free HardWare Design" is accurate.

fortunately I got http://fhwd.org/ not long after it was abandoned by 
its previous owner.

yg