Fedora Electronic Lab support for openmoko hardware development

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Hello openmoko developers,

As part of our commitment to the opensource hardware community, Fedora
Project has a sub project called Fedora Electronic Lab.
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/

Fedora Electronic Lab strives to provide a robust platform (based upon
solely opensource software) for electronic hardware development
platform for everyone. Since most of our users are also interested in
opensource hardware such as openmoko, etc.

Hence for Fedora-12 release, we have included the trunk version of
kicad, openocd, and fped. We hope that you, openmoko developers, can
now work out of the box with

svn co https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/
cd gta02-core/
make update
make sch

instead of this time consuming process
http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/docs/GETTING-STARTED

That said, we sincerely hope that our contribution might help you
seduce more contributors easily. We currently have the following list
of packages under the Fedora Electronic Lab umbrella for the following
architectures (i686,x86_64, PPC and PPC64):
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html

If you feel that we still lack tools that are important to the
openmoko's development, please do not hesitate to let us know.

We also want to hear from you, how we can work together so that we can
provide you a proper development platform.

Other references:
* FEL-12 Release notes :
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf
* FEL-12 Flyer :
http://chitlesh.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/draft-fedora-electronic-lab-12s-flyer/
* Open ticket to track openmoko's support:

CentOS-5 and RHEL-5 users can also benefit from the FEL platform (of
course for free) via the EPEL repository.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Kind regards,
Chitlesh Goorah

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[Wolfgang Spraul-3]

Chitlesh,
I first need to say that I have left the Fedora camp many years ago, now a
happy Debian user, but still, your work on bringing together those tools
is fantastic I think.

> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html
> If you feel that we still lack tools that are important to the
> openmoko's development, please do not hesitate to let us know.

I have 2 links to stuff you might want to consider adding:

HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad
links to several NURBS libraries and tools: http://irc.esben-stien.name/mediawiki/index.php/NURBS

Best Regards,
Wolfgang

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

> Hello openmoko developers,
>
> As part of our commitment to the opensource hardware community, Fedora
> Project has a sub project called Fedora Electronic Lab.
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/
>
> Fedora Electronic Lab strives to provide a robust platform (based upon
> solely opensource software) for electronic hardware development
> platform for everyone. Since most of our users are also interested in
> opensource hardware such as openmoko, etc.
>
> Hence for Fedora-12 release, we have included the trunk version of
> kicad, openocd, and fped. We hope that you, openmoko developers, can
> now work out of the box with
>
> svn co https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/
> cd gta02-core/
> make update
> make sch
>
> instead of this time consuming process
> http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/docs/GETTING-STARTED
>
> That said, we sincerely hope that our contribution might help you
> seduce more contributors easily. We currently have the following list
> of packages under the Fedora Electronic Lab umbrella for the following
> architectures (i686,x86_64, PPC and PPC64):
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html
>
> If you feel that we still lack tools that are important to the
> openmoko's development, please do not hesitate to let us know.
>
> We also want to hear from you, how we can work together so that we can
> provide you a proper development platform.
>
> Other references:
> * FEL-12 Release notes :
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf
> * FEL-12 Flyer :
> http://chitlesh.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/draft-fedora-electronic-lab-12s-flyer/
> * Open ticket to track openmoko's support:
>
> CentOS-5 and RHEL-5 users can also benefit from the FEL platform (of
> course for free) via the EPEL repository.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> Kind regards,
> Chitlesh Goorah
>
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[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> Chitlesh,
> I first need to say that I have left the Fedora camp many years ago, now a
> happy Debian user, but still, your work on bringing together those tools
> is fantastic I think.
>

Originally, I was focussing on interoperability among ASIC development
tools, which is still missing in other distributions.

> HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad

This is a bit tricky due to its dependency on opencascade. OpenCascade
was blocked by Fedora Legal as despite the work done by Debian
developers is still not "free" compatible as explained on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974

It seems this also affects Freecad.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459125

Possibly they might enter rpmfusion instead:
http://rpmfusion.org/

Cheers,
Chitlesh

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[Werner Almesberger]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> Hence for Fedora-12 release, we have included the trunk version of
> kicad, openocd, and fped. We hope that you, openmoko developers, can
> now work out of the box with

This is great, thanks a lot !

> instead of this time consuming process
> http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/docs/GETTING-STARTED

Yes, it's indeed a bit of a death march :)

- Werner

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[Wolfgang Spraul-3]

Chitlesh,

> Originally, I was focussing on interoperability among ASIC development
> tools, which is still missing in other distributions.

Oh definitely, it's great work you are doing there! I didn't mean my
Debian comment in any bad way, more like "unfortunately this is hard
for me to try out right now since I only have Debian nearby".

> > HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad
>
> This is a bit tricky due to its dependency on opencascade. OpenCascade
> was blocked by Fedora Legal as despite the work done by Debian

Oh, interesting. I wasn't aware of that, will read up a bit...

Wolfgang

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:02:38PM +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> > Chitlesh,
> > I first need to say that I have left the Fedora camp many years ago, now a
> > happy Debian user, but still, your work on bringing together those tools
> > is fantastic I think.
> >
>
> Originally, I was focussing on interoperability among ASIC development
> tools, which is still missing in other distributions.
>
> > HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad
>
> This is a bit tricky due to its dependency on opencascade. OpenCascade
> was blocked by Fedora Legal as despite the work done by Debian
> developers is still not "free" compatible as explained on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974
>
> It seems this also affects Freecad.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459125
>
> Possibly they might enter rpmfusion instead:
> http://rpmfusion.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Chitlesh
>
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