#timvideos

rohitksingh_work & mithro: Those USB Host boards just arrived. USB3300 and some MAX3421E PCBs from eBay. USB3300 is the same as the WaveShare board.

Nice!

rohitksingh_work: Shipped from China in less than a week. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/191891123043 ... Still have to wait a couple of weeks for the oshpark PCBs.

Title: USB3300 USB HS Board Host ULPI Connector MIC2075-1BM ULPI Interface PHY Device S | eBay (at www.ebay.com.au)

rohitksingh_work: https://github.com/ObKo/USBCore is another verilog core. He's got a ULPI pmod on that github too.

Title: GitHub - ObKo/USBCore: USB Full-Speed/Hi-Speed Device Controller core for FPGA (at github.com)

futarisIRCcloud: oh that's nice! Thanks for the link! It looks quite good. I'll go through its code

mithro: Any update on merging the litex changes? I'm currently blocked on that for the SD card stuff, among other things.

travis was complaining about a missing tcl file

cr1901_modern: Probably not going to happen until the weekend

Okay... well, adding the spi flash config stuff is also kinda blocked. I guess in the meantime I'll look into conda/appveyor on Windoze

cr1901_modern: Start with openocd I think

mithro: Well the first thing I need to figure out is how to get prerequisite libraries that you expect the user to have installed already onto a windows machine

(like libftdi/libusb)

cr1901_modern: That might explain why I was adding libusb to our conda packages...

cr1901_modern: https://github.com/mithro/conda-hdmi2usb-packag...

Title: GitHub - mithro/conda-hdmi2usb-packages at libusb (at github.com)

mithro: That was a bad example. I'm sure there are others :P

cr1901_modern: OpenOCD doesn't have a lot of dependencies?

No... if memory serves, just libusb/libftdi

what I was getting at is that I agree that if your distro provides them, use the distro-provided libusb/libftdi

But perhaps Windows should provide them as conda packages b/c the package management stuff on windoze, well kinda sucks

(not to mention we still need bash)

cr1901_modern: I'd hope to get rid of the bash dependency

mithro: Could we get rid of make as well possibly/swap to meson?

Well not now*

cr1901_modern: Potentially - but that is a pretty big ask

But just thinking ahead

cr1901_modern: But yes

mithro: You are aware that there are two ABIs used for Windows, right?

cr1901_modern: Nope!

well kinda but I don't really care

Fair. Just thinking about whether to build on Windows or cross-compile via mingw.

https://anaconda.org/anaconda/make Thank God

cr1901_modern: Being able to cross-compile via mingw would be a pretty big win

mithro: I will see what I can do, as I normally compile natively via mingw64

I don't have a problem w/ it, but need to experiment

I wish it were possible to see what files/dep an anaconda package provides

(without installing it)

cr1901_modern: FYI - You can just download the package and use tar to list the contents

cr1901_modern: The API here -> https://api.anaconda.org/docs might have something a bit more useful?

wget https://anaconda.org/mithro/vtr/7.0.5/download/... -O- | tar -jvx info/recipe/meta.yaml -O

oh cool

cr1901_modern: I'd like to only upload a new build to anaconda when we actually changed something in which affected the package

Well I mean, we'll have to upload the windows versions of the packages. They're not uploaded yet!

cr1901_modern: This was more a reason why I was playing with the API / metadata in the meta.yaml file

mithro: Right now, I don't actually understand. What _is_ the current status of running HDMI2USB/litex-buildenv on Windoze, conda or otherwise?

I know without conda is unsupported period (although I do it anyway)

cr1901_modern: The only person who is doing it is you and xobs

Well presumably we're both using mingw64 (can't compile gcc w/o it)

cr1901_modern: Nope, xobs is using that compatibility layer thingy

Title: Bash On Windows · timvideos/litex-buildenv Wiki · GitHub (at github.com)

Damnit

so far I have only heard good things about it (bash on win)

I use 7, so I don't have access to it

oh, well that's a problem

Hi, how can I buy a opsis board?

Title: Shrinking the kernel with a hammer [LWN.net] (at lwn.net)

phls: https://numato.com/product/numato-opsis-fpga-ba...

That LWN link seems like it could be *super* useful for us

mithro: did you land that edid fix?

CarlFK[m]: can't until I fixed the above issue that cr1901_modern1 was talking about

k - just making sure it didn't slip past me, or get forgotten about

CarlFK[m]: Keep bugging me

rodger that

Modern XIP in Linux looks cool. Its been in uClinux since early 2000s.