It sounds to me as if you spoke to an area sales rep that actually has no idea what they are talking about. The idea that component suppliers for FPGAs provide drivers that use Windows only is preposterous. In fact, THE FPGA supplier (Xilinx) has yet to provide Windows 10 support for their Vivado tool chain. I am right down the road from them and most of their devs are working in Linux.
In fact, you can simply look around and find that this is just simply not true. FPGAs (as well as UARTs, SPI, I2C, etc, etc) are ALL supported on smaller, maker oriented Linux based platforms. What your local rep likely meant to say is *National Instruments* will not supply drivers for Linux.
Truth of the matter is that they don't see Linux as a viable market right now so it is unlikely we will see any movement until other devs start to realize Windows is a terrible professional platform.
I have seen material stating that more drivers will be ported over to Linux over the next couple of years, many going into a beta now or over the next year or so. I cannot say anything about toolkits or NXG.
There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God" - 2 Corinthians 3:5
That would be awesome - the two things that are missing right now are support for FPGA and RT. If these were ditched, I might actually no longer have to use my VMs (or at least not as much)...
