Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

Post by mort96 » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

Drakim wrote: post #40

adrian_b wrote: post #38

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Some people, including the management of most big corporations, claim that verbal insults, which do no actual physical harm to anyone, are "unacceptable abusive behavior", while the actions that do physical harm to others, e.g. by tricking or forcing them to pay an extra part of their hard-earned money for things that should not have been paid, because they had already been paid in another form, instead of using that…

I agree with your point (that AMD does a lot more harm than what they are indignant about) but not the way you go there. If emotional abusive behavior is not "physical harm" because it's just emotions, then financial abusive behavior is not "physical harm" either because it's just numbers. When you consider what incredible harm being emotionally unwell can lead to, I don't think it deserves to be dismissed. AMD is cl…

Post by cumshitpiss » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC

Post by charcircuit » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:18 AM UTC

adrian_b wrote: post #21

izacus wrote: post #20

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What you say is ridiculous. The only reason why the "Linux community" cannot create adequate FPGA design tools is that the vendors like AMD refuse to document the necessary details of their products. A few old AMD FPGAs have been reversed engineered, e.g. some ARTIX-7, so for them there is no need for the rather bad AMD tools, but for most AMD formerly Xilinx FPGAs it is impossible to create better tools for lack of…

Post by PowerElectronix » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC

Post by Joker_vD » Sun, May 24, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #16

jkubic wrote: post #8

I’ve spent several hundred thousand on Xilinx FPGAs yet they nickel and dime me for licenses. It’s not the cost that’s a problem—-it’s the hassle of making a PO for a license to set up new computers, set up CI, hiring new teammates, setting up for interns/students. Xilinx has continued to go downhill since their acquisition by AMD.. it used to feel like it was run by engineers who understood their customers, now it s…

Tbh, I think they should just charge for the chips and keep the software free.

    The logical conclusion of this is that if you’re trying to sell operating systems,
    the most important thing to do is make software developers want to develop software
    for your operating system. That’s why Steve Ballmer was jumping around the stage
    shouting “Developers, developers, developers, developers.” It’s so important for
    Microsoft that the only reason they don’t outright give away development tools for
    Windows is because they don’t want to inadvertently cut off the oxygen to competitive
    development tools vendors (well, those that are left) because having a variety of
    development tools available for their platform makes it that much more attractive to
    developers. But they really want to give away the development tools. Through their
    Empower ISV program you can get five complete sets of MSDN Universal (otherwise known
    as “basically every Microsoft product except Flight Simulator“) for about $375.
    Command line compilers for the .NET languages are included with the free .NET
    runtime... also free. The C++ compiler is now free. Anything to encourage developers
    to build for the .NET platform, and holding just short of wiping out companies like
    Borland.