We (or more likely, Clifford Wolf) writes the code to do it. Maybe not today, but proprietary software wasn't replaced by open source software in a day.
I'm not saying that yosys is a replacement for Vivado, it's obviously not, but here we have a nice Artix-based board and with not too much effort we could also offer a completely free, easy to use toolchain for it, perhaps not one which does everything, but definitely enough to download designs, compile a bitstream and program it onto the board.
Instead we have this huge barrier to entry - download 40GB [sic] of proprietary crap and register for a time-limited account which is tied to the particular chip you're using.
We (or more likely, Clifford Wolf) writes the code to do it. Maybe not today, but proprietary software wasn't replaced by open source software in a day.
I'm not saying that yosys is a replacement for Vivado, it's obviously not, but here we have a nice Artix-based board and with not too much effort we could also offer a completely free, easy to use toolchain for it, perhaps not one which does everything, but definitely enough to download designs, compile a bitstream and program it onto the board.
Instead we have this huge barrier to entry - download 40GB [sic] of proprietary crap and register for a time-limited account which is tied to the particular chip you're using.