[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] FOSS.in Talk on Fedora Electronics Laboratory
by Aanjhan R
Hello Folks,
As some of you already know, I will be making a presentation on Fedora
Electronics Laboratory at FOSS.IN in a week and a half and have come
up with some topics I will be covering there below. This talk is
mainly intended at presenting a developer point of view of FEL (of
course an introduction will be given).
- Introduction to FEL (Packages, philosophy, why fel?)
- Current Status of FEL
- Future Roadmap
- Developer Opportunities (Am still listing down the tasks gathering
mostly from the roadmap like unpackaged packages, testbench creation,
documentation)
Is there some other major topic that you guys suggest? A gentle
reminder that this is a developer oriented conference that aims at
creating more Free Software contributors and just not users.
[1] http://foss.in/2008/schedules/
Regards,
--
Aanjhan
15 years, 6 months
[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] git FEL repo: your developer's corner
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
You had in the past some discussion on having some materials on how to
use FEL apps in order to welcome more users.
Well now there is possible to bring forward your materials, we have
received a git repository from Fedora Infrastructure.
I have detailed the process of acquiring write access to this repository here :
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/contribution.html
If seriously, we have some nice set of materials on that repository,
we could eventually create a RPM package for F-11 :)
Kind regards,
Chitlesh
15 years, 6 months
[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Re: FEL Contributor
by Chitlesh GOORAH
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:09 PM, JoergSimon wrote:
> Hello Chitlesh, Thibault
>
> as you know i have started to support Kyrgyzstan to build another Homebase for
> Fedora in Central Asia. Today Mirlan - our new Fellow - told me he is
> thinking about, giving a talk about FEL. Great! If i do a lucky shot it is
> always a Electronic Student ;)
> I recommend Mirlan as a trustworthy fellow and i am sure you can help him in
> starting as a FEL Contributor.
Hello Joerg and everyone one,
Thanks joerg :)
Mirlan, welcome to the team.
As you have most probably heard of FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab).
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
Fedora Electronic Lab consists of contributors like us, who are
working hard so that Fedora could provide a complete electronic
simulation platform using Fedora Infrastructure for that.
This Infrastructure consists of Fedora Ambassadors (marketing and
recruiting), mailing lists, Release engineers, livedvd,... This
explains "Fedora"'s presence in FEL. We believe that with Fedora's
already matured infrastructure, we can focus more on electronics and
produce quick outcomes.
Please join FEL's mailing list and introduce yourself and let us know
how you can contribute to FEL. We will be glad to hear from you.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list
Kind regards,
Chitlesh
-
15 years, 6 months
[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Re: How to use FEL ?
by Chitlesh GOORAH
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Danishka Navin < > wrote:
> Hi Chitlesh ,
Hello Danishka
> Is it possible to install FEL using F9 or F10 DVD ? do we need extra
> repository?
FEL includes packages only from official fedora repositories and are
default in any fedora installed system. You don't need to install any
other repository. This is one of the goals of FEL quick deployment of
design tools. You can take any Fedora dvd or livecd to install, then
you can yum install any package you would like..
> And what about FEL with Fedora LiveCD?
FEL on a Fedora LiveCD is the FEL LiveDVD. It will be released as
torrent, on the 25 november 2008,
However if you want to create your own FEL livedvd, follow this small tutorial
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/livedvd.html
> Coz, I can introduce FEL to school education system in Sri Lanka.
Thanks that will be cool. Let's us know how we could assist you if we can.
Currently, I'm updating this document:
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/fel-flyer8.pdf
By next weekend you can have an updated version on:
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/
> Appreciate your help.
>
> Best Regards,
> Danishka
>>
Kind regards,
Chitlesh
15 years, 6 months
[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Roadmap of FEL - Discussion
by Aanjhan R
Heya folks!!
Now that F10 is frozen, we must start activity for F11. As a result we
would like to meet up in #fedora-electronic tonight at 2100 hrs CEST
for a brief discussion. The Agenda will be mainly focusing on the
road-map, immediate to-dos.
Thanks for being there and sorry for the short notice.
Reggies.
--
Aanjhan
15 years, 6 months
[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Deploying FEL for Centos/RHEL 5 users on EPEL
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
This email is cross-posted on:
- fedora electronic lab mailing list
- fedora epel mailing list
- centos devel mailing list
- fedora marketing mailing list
It describes briefly what FEL and EPEL (if case you don't know) are
and my intentions for this deployment.
FEL stands for Fedora Electronic Laboratory. The later is about
packaging, maintaining and shipping electronic simulation packages for
real hardware development. It was initially started with my passion
for ASIC design, but now covers various design tools for:
* Digital Simulation
* VLSI Layout and Verification
* RTL and logic synthesis design flows
* Circuit Simulation
* PCB Layout and Circuit Design
* Micro Controller (µC) Programming and Embedded Systems Development
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/
Now we are about roughly 8 contributors.
It is already more than 2 years since the early bits of FEL were
introduced to Fedora repositories. Many other Fedora packagers and
Fedora-Arm SIG have contributed a lot this success as well.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
Packaging is good, but is not enough. One of the main goals is to act
as CAD/EDA engineers and bring open source hardware design tools to a
meaningful usage and ensure interoperability within the design flows.
We are thriving for interoperability, because without this, design
tools are useless and even if its open source. Most of these packages
have not yet been packaged for any other distributions.
More specific details on the blog posts. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/
Building a community and do marketing around FEL is also another of
our priorities and a _hard_ task. Knowledge in electronics is advised
and recommended :)
I have received a lot of suggestions to deploy FEL on EPEL
repositories so that Centos and RHEL users can use them on a longer
basis. As many universities around the world have deployed
enterprise-class Linux distributions such as Centos and RHEL, I
believe users, lecturers and designers can largely benefit from the
EPEL repositories.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
http://www.centos.org/
I have no idea whether Scientific Linux can take advantage of these
intentions or not. If you do, let me know.
In the past and even till now, I had very good experiences with Centos
contributors. With some of the Centos contributors, we (fedora) even
shared booths and devrooms in Belgium and Germany. If ever a Centos
packager is already packaging any electronic simulation packages,
please send us a mail in our brand new mailing list. We looking
forward to hear from you. We'll be glad if we can work together. I'm
focussing on EPEL 5.
As I'm writing, only %1 of the work for building FEL packages for EPEL
repositories has been done. Thus during the Fedora 11 development
cycle, most of the work will be carried out and dependencies solve, at
least mine.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/chitlesh
Nevertheless, some new tools will find their way to FEL very soon,
e.g: verilator. The packages that I or any FEL contributor will push
to EPEL repositories will not be as cutting-edge as they will on
supported Fedora repositories.
In the upcoming months, which I'm waiting for which desperately, we
will see more mixed-level simulation support on the FEL platform.
Now, FEL 10 will be out soon at the end of this month as a LiveDVD and
packages are yum-able from fedora's repositories.
Your suggestions and critics are welcome.
We are only a small group of contributors who are working on a very
specific application, "hardware design tools" and making their
upstream benefit from the open source eco system. FEL has a lot of
success since its official F8 release, and we are keen to keep that
going and extend our umbrella.
thanks and kind regards,
Chitlesh GOORAH
15 years, 6 months
[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Re: db-compat
by Chitlesh GOORAH
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan(a)jonmasters.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It would seem we're no longer shipping libdb-4.1.so, whereas we do have
> 4.2, 4.3, and 4.5 in that db4 compatibility package. I wound up just
> stealing the binary from an older RPM and copying it in place.
>
> Anyway, software like Xilinx's ISE/EDK would like it back :)
>
> Jon.
Jindrich Novy, can you package it for us, please ?
Xilinx ISE/EDK is also an important tool for me :)
Chitlesh
15 years, 6 months