Tracking: Changes to generators

[imphil]

Currently, generators are only able to produce source files, which are then added to the file list. For advanced use cases, e.g. in OpenTitan, that's not enough. We currently are running a patched version of FuseSoC for OpenTitan and I'm working on changing a couple more things. This issue is tracking progress on that.

These changes will be changing the behavior of generators, and should therefor go into the next major release.

High priority:

• [ ] Resolve dependencies for generator-created cores: #391
• [ ] Pass information about discovered cores to a generator (EDAM file change): #250
• [ ] Allow dependencies to generator-produced cores: #449

Lower priority:

• [x] #382

Unclassified:

• [ ] https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc/issues/251

[olofk]

Is this still valid?

[imphil]

Probably yes, there is no way to do what OpenTitan needs with current FuseSoC releases.