If I write a patch to change caravel to caravan (i.e. remove some of the extra MPRJ I/O and put in the analog pads instead) and have my Makefile run that patch at the appropriate times (like setup) will I be able to use such. I.e. will a human intervene and say no caravel, no OpenMPW?

@Alex Orange there is no caravan for gfmpw-1. I don’t think any other formats besides the standard

user_project_wrapper

for

caravel

will be accepted because there are expected to be more than 40 designs submitted.

Right, I was suggesting taking caravel and making my own caravan. Then writing a patch that would get used in my Makefile to patch the caravel before the GDS gets made.

The top level caravel is created on the platform using a production script and not the user’s Makefile.

Thanks, that answers the "can I solve this myself" question pretty thoroughly. Do you have any idea who I would contact to petition being allowed to submit a general caravan that anyone could use?

Probably @jeffdi for starters.

jeffdi would you mind chiming in on whether there's a chance here for a caravan to get accepted into the picture for GF180?