Are big tests allowed in binutils?

[lkcl]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 6:30 PM Dmitry Selyutin <ghostmansd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 8:26 PM lkcl <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > describing where those tools are is a good call.
>
> ...as long as the tools _are_ available, which is not currently the
> case, since we still have to implement a good generator. Or did you
> mean the SVP64 source code itself by "tools"

sv_analysis [0], sv_binutils [1], and the [planned] test auto-generator.
whilst these tools are under the LGPLv3+ [2] and their output, because
they are effectively a compiler tool we *choose* to release the output
of those tools under the GPL [and assign it to the FSF] and one of the
dependencies is not GPL'd (BSD 2-clause) [3]

we have fully-automated install scripts for the installation of all
software dependencies.  up to line 61 of this script [4] is sufficient.
where's a good place to include mention of that, should anyone else
wish to make modifications in future?

l.

[0] https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=src/openpower/sv/sv_analysis.py;hb=HEAD
[1] https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=src/openpower/sv/sv_binutils.py;hb=HEAD
[2] https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LGPLv3;hb=HEAD
[3] https://gitlab.com/nmigen/nmigen/-/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
[4] https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=hdl-dev-repos;hb=HEAD