litex/CONTRIBUTING.md

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Sending Patches

MiSoC does not use GitHub pull requests. Instead you must send patches to the public mailing list devel@lists.m-labs.hk.

Before sending patches, please read the rest of this guide and make sure your patch meets the following criteria;

  • Meets style guide requirements listed below.
  • Includes a suitable commit message.

Sending mail to the mailing list can be done via the git send-email tool. The git send-email tool is not included by default on many Linux distributions, on Ubuntu / Debian systems you may need to install the git-email package. Documentation on using this tool can be found at http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

To send patches to the mailing list you must first be subscribed to the list. You can subscribe at https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/devel

An example session would be;

# Set up [sendemail] as described at http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email in
# the EXAMPLE section.

# Download, make changes to misoc and commit them
git clone https://github.com/m-labs/misoc
cd misoc
edit xxx.py
git commit -a

# Send patch to mailing list
# --------------------------
# 1) Remove any previous outgoing patch
rm -rf outgoing

# 2) Put the patches to be sent into the outgoing directory
git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/

# 3) Edit the cover letter with information about the patch
edit outgoing/0000-*

# 4) Actually send the email.
git send-email --to=devel@lists.m-labs.hk outgoing/*

Help

If your submission is large and complex and/or you are not sure how to proceed, feel free to discuss it on the mailing list or IRC (#m-labs on Freenode) beforehand.

Style Guide

All code should be compliant with the PEP8 style guide.

You can use the pep8 tool to check compliance with pep8 myfile.py

When modifying existing code be consistent with any existing code style.

License

All new contributions should be under the same license as MiSoC. This is a very permissive two-clause BSD license. Full license text can be found at https://github.com/m-labs/misoc/blob/master/LICENSE