From d630816f9bbb6e1aec4d6fa583ca7ca5045c4f18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Austein Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:59:44 -0400 Subject: First step towards Alpha board firmware release engineering. Committing and pushing early so I can do initial test builds on something with a little more horsepower. --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebf4015 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Preliminary release engineering super-repository for building firmware +for the Cryptech "Alpha" board. + +Primary tasks here are to build a bitstream for the FPGA and the +"bootstrap" and "hsm" images for the Alpha's CPU. + +Eventually there will be a lot of packaging and versioning glorp here, +but let's start with basic build and clean targets. + +Current repository structure is, um, complicated. On the RTL side, we +have a tree of simple subrepositories, each representing one RTL core. + +On the software side, we have a subrepository which has several +subrepositories of its own: current thinking is that this should +probably be replaced by separate repositories and Makefile VPATH +magic, but this is what we have today so it's what we build with +today. + +This README is probably obsolete by the time you're reading it. -- cgit v1.2.3