The parent comment made it sound like vendors intentionally withhold information to limit how well the open source competitors work.
Is that happening? If so, it's a clear barrier to OSS adoption/contribution. A shame.
Is that happening? If so, it's a clear barrier to OSS adoption/contribution. A shame.
This has various implications, such as smaller FPGAs being literally tooling-locked versions of larger ones, important features like partial reconfiguration being supported by the hardware but a huge pain to use from the logic, or vendor tools not supporting some language construct and you're stuck with that tool. (Admittedly they are far and away better than FOSS tooling for language support.)
I suspect it has nothing to do with the OSSW community; they give their software tools away.