From 1e98f3c0366dcb3f24f01240bb474c77c3052524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 21:37:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 01/22] flow/README.md: document host-aware sweep +
 yosys-idempotency triage
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Restore the sweep recipe (per-platform --keep_going, big designs solo,
small designs batched) and the triage decision tree for failing _tests.
The yosys-environment false-positive check now points at
@bazel-orfs//:make-yosys-netlist (and the reverse @bazel-orfs//:yosys-check),
which moved upstream in 432edcd63; the full workflow lives in
@bazel-orfs//:TESTING.md "Debugging OpenROAD determinism (bazel vs make)".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/README.md | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)

diff --git a/flow/README.md b/flow/README.md
index 9c4f2ff678..63621a894a 100644
--- a/flow/README.md
+++ b/flow/README.md
@@ -56,3 +56,82 @@ the generated targets get `tags = ["manual"]`.
 Each OpenROAD invocation takes `-threads <nproc>`. A wildcard
 `bazelisk test` runs designs in parallel and overcommits the host. Cap
 with `--jobs=N`.
+
+## Running a full sweep without overburdening the host
+
+To verify every design under one or more platforms (e.g. before
+bumping `bazel-orfs` or `tools/yosys`), drive `bazelisk test` per
+platform with `--keep_going` so one failure doesn't mask the rest,
+and split big designs into their own invocations so routing/synth
+don't overcommit RAM.
+
+```bash
+# 1. Install the make-flow toolchain too, so failures can be
+#    cross-checked against `make DESIGN_CONFIG=...`.
+(cd tools/OpenROAD && bazelisk run //:install)
+
+# 2. List actual test targets per platform (capture before running
+#    so the sweep is reproducible).
+bazelisk query 'tests(//flow/designs/asap7/...)'
+bazelisk query 'tests(//flow/designs/sky130hd/...)'
+
+# 3. Small/fast designs in one parallel invocation; each big design
+#    in its own sequential invocation. 16-core / 30 GiB box:
+bazelisk test --keep_going \
+  //flow/designs/asap7/aes/... //flow/designs/asap7/gcd/... \
+  //flow/designs/asap7/uart/... //flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd/...   # etc.
+
+for big in cva6 ibex jpeg riscv32i swerv_wrapper; do
+  bazelisk test --keep_going //flow/designs/asap7/${big}/...
+done
+```
+
+Heuristic: hierarchical / RISC-V cores / image-processing designs
+run solo; everything else batches. Use `--jobs=N` to cap parallel
+OpenROAD invocations if the host still thrashes.
+
+## Triaging a failing `_test`
+
+For each failing `<design>_test`, decide which bucket it falls into:
+
+1. **Trivial config fix.** Missing variable in
+   `flow/scripts/variables.yaml`, a typo in `config.mk`, a missing
+   `exports_files()` for a cross-design SDC/Verilog reference, etc.
+   Fix in place; `variables.yaml` is the single source of truth
+   bazel-orfs validates against.
+
+2. **Yosys-environment false positive (OpenROAD is idempotent given
+   the same netlist).** Bazel-built yosys and make-built yosys
+   produce different `1_2_yosys.v` for the same RTL, and that
+   netlist drift can move QoR past `rules-base.json` thresholds
+   even when OpenROAD itself is bit-deterministic. Confirm with:
+
+   ```bash
+   bazelisk run @bazel-orfs//:make-yosys-netlist \
+       //flow/designs/asap7/<design>:<design>_test
+   ```
+
+   All stages MATCH in the `bazel+make-netlist` column → false
+   positive, ignore (or relax the threshold). Any DIFFER → real
+   bazel-vs-make OpenROAD divergence — file the per-stage SHA
+   matrix as an issue. `@bazel-orfs//:yosys-check` is the
+   reverse-direction wrapper (bazel's netlist into make).
+
+   Full workflow + interpretation, the `SYNTH_NETLIST_FILES` manual
+   override, and the `BLOCKS=` caveat live in
+   [`@bazel-orfs//:TESTING.md`](https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs/blob/main/TESTING.md)
+   under "Debugging OpenROAD determinism (bazel vs make)".
+
+3. **Real bug (both flows fail at the same stage).** `.odb` SHAs may
+   still differ (yosys version) but the failure mode matches.
+   Generate an issue tarball from the make flow:
+
+   ```bash
+   cd flow
+   make <stage>_issue DESIGN_CONFIG=designs/<plat>/<design>/config.mk \
+                      ISSUE_TAG=<plat>-<design>-<short>
+   ```
+
+   `flow/util/utils.mk` auto-generates `<script>_issue` targets for
+   every script in `flow/scripts/` (`floorplan_issue`,
+   `global_route_issue`, `detail_route_issue`, `final_issue`, …).

From 833813c71f62bef0382cc1283a72f92a70891618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 07:43:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 02/22] bazel: bump yosys to 0.65 via BCR PR registry override
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Yosys 0.63 has a WRAPCELL/RTLIL-identifier memory corruption that
produces garbage characters in module names like
`'\\<random>_KOGGE_STONE'` during synthesis of designs that exercise
the $alu architectural-options path (cva6, ibex, riscv32i*,
swerv_wrapper, sky130hd/{ibex,microwatt} all hit this in the
asap7+sky130hd sweep). Upstream yosys fixed it; 0.65 produces clean
names like `ALU_64_0_64_0_64_KOGGE_STONE`.

bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry#8863 adds 0.65 to BCR. Until that
lands we point at oharboe's fork branch via an additional --registry
in .bazelrc, then force the root resolution to 0.65 via
single_version_override (bazel-orfs's MODULE.bazel pins to 0.63).

Verified: //flow/designs/asap7/cva6:cva6_synth now builds clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 .bazelrc     |  8 ++++++++
 MODULE.bazel | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index b5d97b6598..5fd082d8fb 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -9,4 +9,12 @@ build --cxxopt "-std=c++20" --host_cxxopt "-std=c++20"
 # bazel-orfs itself does (its own .bazelrc:7).
 common --lockfile_mode=off
 
+# Test yosys 0.65 via the BCR PR (bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry#8863).
+# Upstream BCR doesn't have 0.65 yet, so point at oharboe's fork branch
+# as an additional registry; combined with single_version_override(yosys,
+# "0.65") in MODULE.bazel this resolves yosys to 0.65 with the
+# WRAPCELL/RTLIL-identifier corruption fix that was missing in 0.63.
+common --registry=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/yosys-0.65/
+common --registry=https://bcr.bazel.build/
+
 try-import %workspace%/user.bazelrc
diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 8441a582f1..7e40690911 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ git_override(
     strip_prefix = "verilog",
 )
 
+# Force yosys to 0.65 (from BCR PR #8863, picked up via the custom
+# registry in .bazelrc).  0.65 fixes the WRAPCELL/RTLIL-identifier
+# memory corruption that produces garbage like `\<garbage>_KOGGE_STONE`
+# strings in cva6 / ibex synthesis on 0.63.  bazel-orfs pins yosys=0.63
+# in its MODULE.bazel; this root override wins.
+single_version_override(
+    module_name = "yosys",
+    version = "0.65",
+)
+
 # yosys-slang is not on BCR. Pin to a commit on povik/yosys-slang master
 # that has the upstream Bazel build (povik/yosys-slang#310) and the
 # slang.so visibility fix (povik/yosys-slang#311). Submodules pull in

From 1507e84afe0060b0fa3fc0ede5a5b37bfb103664 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 08:20:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 03/22] bazel: bump bazel-orfs to c000cb3 (user_sources= is
 upstream)
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Upstream main now has commit c000cb3 "orfs_design/orfs_flow: add
user_sources= for design-private path hooks" — the same change we
were carrying as 0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch. Drop the
patch file and remove the patches= reference in MODULE.bazel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |  11 +-
 bazel/0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch | 153 ------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 163 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 bazel/0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 7e40690911..ed6257160d 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ git_override(
 bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs", dev_dependency = True)
 bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs-verilog", dev_dependency = True)
 
-BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "ce6efd96dfe39a9c4ef244f8712386f071545d77"
+BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "c000cb3fa5c756841de0411f848a211c360468c2"
 
 BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 
@@ -44,15 +44,6 @@ BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 git_override(
     module_name = "bazel-orfs",
     commit = BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT,
-    patch_strip = 1,
-    patches = [
-        # Adds orfs_design(user_sources=[VAR,...]) / orfs_flow(user_sources={...})
-        # so design-private SOURCE_VARS path hooks (e.g. SDC_FILE_EXTRA in
-        # flow/designs/asap7/mock-cpu) bypass the variables.yaml validator
-        # without polluting the ORFS-wide variable schema. Drop once upstream
-        # bazel-orfs lands the user_sources= API.
-        "//bazel:0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch",
-    ],
     remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
 )
 
diff --git a/bazel/0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch b/bazel/0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d22eaef7cf..0000000000
--- a/bazel/0001-orfs_design-add-user_sources.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,153 +0,0 @@
-From 58df356479d6d9f04aa0bc3ac3676d3b89d26813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 18:48:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] orfs_design/orfs_flow: add user_sources= for design-private
- path hooks
-MIME-Version: 1.0
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-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-Symmetric to user_arguments=, but for source-typed (path-label) vars:
-a variable that the config_mk_parser classifies as a SOURCE_VAR (path
-staged into the sandbox via _map_source_file) but that is read only
-by user-supplied .tcl/.mk and has no entry in ORFS variables.yaml.
-
-Today such a variable bumps into check_variables(sources.keys()) in
-orfs_flow and fails the load phase, even though the file itself is
-staged correctly. user_arguments= doesn't help because it pops from
-arguments, not sources.
-
-The motivating case is SDC_FILE_EXTRA — set by
-flow/designs/asap7/mock-cpu/config.mk and source'd from that design's
-io.tcl, with no ORFS-side consumer. SDC_FILE_EXTRA is in this file's
-SOURCE_VARS list, so its value is path-staged; making it work without
-declaring it as a global ORFS variable is what user_sources= is for.
-
-API:
-- orfs_design() gains user_sources=[VAR, ...]. Each named var is
-  popped from sources and forwarded as orfs_flow(user_sources={...}).
-- orfs_flow() gains user_sources={VAR: [label, ...]}. Merged into
-  sources before _orfs_pass so files are still staged, but the key
-  set skips check_variables. Same shadowing guard as user_arguments=:
-  collision with a known ORFS variable fails fast.
-
-Mirrors user_arguments= in both surface and intent.
-
-Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
----
- private/flow.bzl        | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
- private/orfs_design.bzl | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/private/flow.bzl b/private/flow.bzl
-index fd9001f..b59d059 100644
---- a/private/flow.bzl
-+++ b/private/flow.bzl
-@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ def orfs_flow(
-         verilog_files = [],
-         macros = [],
-         sources = {},
-+        user_sources = {},
-         stage_sources = {},
-         stage_arguments = {},
-         renamed_inputs = {},
-@@ -213,6 +214,12 @@ def orfs_flow(
-         validating against ORFS variables.yaml. Use for vars read only by user-supplied .tcl/.mk
-         (e.g. ARRAY_COLS in a project's MACRO_PLACEMENT_TCL). Keys that collide with known ORFS
-         variables are rejected — route those through 'arguments' instead.
-+      user_sources: dictionary of project-specific source-typed (path-label) env vars to expose
-+        to every stage without validating against ORFS variables.yaml. The path is still staged
-+        into the sandbox like a normal source — only the variable name skips the validator.
-+        Use for path hooks read only by user-supplied .tcl/.mk (e.g. an extra-SDC hook
-+        source'd from the design's own io.tcl). Keys that collide with known ORFS variables
-+        are rejected — route those through 'sources' instead.
-       extra_arguments: dictionary keyed by ORFS stages with lists of .json argument file labels.
-         These .json files are merged into the stage config, providing computed arguments
-         that flow through OrfsInfo to subsequent stages.
-@@ -269,6 +276,14 @@ def orfs_flow(
-             ) +
-             "Use arguments= for ORFS variables; reserve user_arguments= for project-specific env vars.",
-         )
-+    shadowed_srcs = sorted([k for k in user_sources if k in ALL_VARIABLE_TO_STAGES])
-+    if shadowed_srcs:
-+        fail(
-+            "user_sources contains known ORFS variable(s): {shadowed}. ".format(
-+                shadowed = ", ".join(shadowed_srcs),
-+            ) +
-+            "Use sources= for ORFS variables; reserve user_sources= for project-specific path hooks.",
-+        )
-     if abstract_stage and last_stage:
-         fail("abstract_stage and last_stage are mutually exclusive")
-     if variant == "base":
-@@ -281,7 +296,7 @@ def orfs_flow(
-         top = top,
-         verilog_files = verilog_files,
-         macros = macros,
--        sources = sources,
-+        sources = sources | user_sources,
-         stage_sources = stage_sources,
-         stage_arguments = stage_arguments,
-         renamed_inputs = renamed_inputs,
-@@ -319,7 +334,7 @@ def orfs_flow(
-         top = top,
-         verilog_files = verilog_files,
-         macros = macros,
--        sources = sources,
-+        sources = sources | user_sources,
-         stage_sources = stage_sources,
-         stage_arguments = stage_arguments,
-         renamed_inputs = {},
-diff --git a/private/orfs_design.bzl b/private/orfs_design.bzl
-index 554da44..d53d4bd 100644
---- a/private/orfs_design.bzl
-+++ b/private/orfs_design.bzl
-@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def _convert_sources(sources, pkg):
-             result[var] = converted
-     return result
- 
--def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = None, designs = None, mock_openroad = None, mock_yosys = None, user_arguments = [], local_arguments = []):  # buildifier: disable=unused-variable
-+def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = None, designs = None, mock_openroad = None, mock_yosys = None, user_arguments = [], user_sources = [], local_arguments = []):  # buildifier: disable=unused-variable
-     """Create orfs_flow() targets for a design based on its parsed config.mk.
- 
-     Usage:
-@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
-             Routed through orfs_flow(user_arguments=...) to bypass the
-             variables.yaml validator instead of being checked as known
-             ORFS arguments.
-+        user_sources: List of source-typed variable names (vars in
-+            SOURCE_VARS) that are project-specific path hooks read only
-+            by user-supplied .tcl/.mk, not by ORFS itself (e.g. a
-+            per-design extra-SDC hook source'd from the design's own
-+            io.tcl). Routed through orfs_flow(user_sources=...) so the
-+            file is still staged into the sandbox, but the variable
-+            name bypasses the variables.yaml validator.
-         local_arguments: List of variable names that are only used for
-             $(VAR) expansion within the same config.mk and are not read
-             by ORFS or by any user .tcl/.mk (e.g. VERILOG_FILES_BLACKBOX,
-@@ -195,6 +202,15 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
-         if var in arguments:
-             user_args[var] = arguments.pop(var)
- 
-+    # Same idea for source-typed (path-label) project-specific knobs:
-+    # variables that are in SOURCE_VARS (so the parser staged the path
-+    # as a label) but are read only by user .tcl/.mk and have no
-+    # variables.yaml entry.
-+    user_srcs = {}
-+    for var in user_sources:
-+        if var in sources:
-+            user_srcs[var] = sources.pop(var)
-+
-     # Default SYNTH_NUM_PARTITIONS to a static value so that the action graph
-     # is identical across machines and remote cache hits are possible.  Users
-     # who prefer local parallelism over caching can pass NUM_CPUS explicitly.
-@@ -213,6 +229,7 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
-         arguments = arguments,
-         user_arguments = user_args,
-         sources = sources,
-+        user_sources = user_srcs,
-         macros = macros if macros else [],
-         stage_data = {"synth": extra_data} if extra_data else {},
-         tags = tags,
--- 
-2.51.0
-

From 924620217b5944febee2bd21b674032224aff3b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:27:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 04/22] flow/designs/asap7/uart: bump rules-base.json from
 classic make flow
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Run `make DESIGN_CONFIG=designs/asap7/uart/config.mk metadata
update_rules` to baseline `rules-base.json` against the make-built
yosys netlist. The diff captures three groups of changes:

* `synth__canonical_netlist__hash` and `synth__netlist__hash` are new
  warning-level rules introduced by a5839b8ec.  This commit
  materializes them for the first time on a real design (make-yosys
  SHA-1 over `1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil` and `1_2_yosys.v`).

* `finish__timing__setup__ws` and `finish__timing__setup__tns` get
  tightened by `--tighten`: make-flow's slack is meaningfully better
  than the previous baseline; this records the new headroom.

The point of the snapshot is to give a `bazelisk test` re-run a
make-yosys reference against which the bazel-yosys netlist hash
mismatches, so `checkMetadata.py` surfaces the warning-level
`[WARN] synth__netlist__hash differs ...` diagnostic that the next
README change documents.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
index 5ce071d395..4372d0de58 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 {
+    "synth__canonical_netlist__hash": {
+        "value": "6e8e16e4f9bdb0e3756653c3bd31fb223f21b445",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
+    "synth__netlist__hash": {
+        "value": "95652d905a7cf9bc9c935a58e01a76e65327c8b3",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
     "synth__design__instance__area__stdcell": {
         "value": 82.7,
         "compare": "<="
@@ -80,11 +90,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -52.4,
+        "value": -46.9,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -1320.0,
+        "value": -1230.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {

From 04ad3da28e87da37c9c5d6918f7d4cbe3cd15ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:30:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 05/22] flow/README.md: lead yosys-idempotency triage with the
 hash warning
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The previous bucket-#2 text walked the reader through the symptom
("bazel-built yosys and make-built yosys produce different
`1_2_yosys.v`") before pointing at the diagnostic.  Now that
`rules-base.json` carries warning-level `synth__canonical_netlist__hash`
and `synth__netlist__hash` entries (a5839b8ec), the diagnostic IS the
symptom: `checkMetadata.py` emits

    [WARN] synth__canonical_netlist__hash differs test: <bazel> == <make>
    [WARN] synth__netlist__hash differs test: <bazel> == <make>

right above the failing QoR row.  Lead with that and keep
`@bazel-orfs//:make-yosys-netlist` (+ the reverse-direction
`@bazel-orfs//:yosys-check`) as the per-stage `.odb` SHA-matrix proof
when the warning alone isn't enough.  Drop the `SYNTH_NETLIST_FILES`
and `BLOCKS=` parenthetical — that level of detail belongs in
`@bazel-orfs//:TESTING.md`, which the link already points at.

Dress-rehearsed on `//flow/designs/asap7/uart:uart_test`: after
bumping `rules-base.json` from the classic make flow (ca657c97a) the
bazel `_test` fires both `[WARN] …__hash differs` lines exactly as
described, alongside the pre-existing
`detailedroute__route__wirelength` failure.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/README.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/README.md b/flow/README.md
index 63621a894a..333a1e921e 100644
--- a/flow/README.md
+++ b/flow/README.md
@@ -101,24 +101,29 @@ For each failing `<design>_test`, decide which bucket it falls into:
    bazel-orfs validates against.
 
 2. **Yosys-environment false positive (OpenROAD is idempotent given
-   the same netlist).** Bazel-built yosys and make-built yosys
-   produce different `1_2_yosys.v` for the same RTL, and that
-   netlist drift can move QoR past `rules-base.json` thresholds
-   even when OpenROAD itself is bit-deterministic. Confirm with:
+   the same netlist).** `rules-base.json` carries SHA-1 fingerprints
+   of `1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil` and `1_2_yosys.v`
+   (`synth__canonical_netlist__hash` /  `synth__netlist__hash`) at
+   warning level, so a bazel-yosys vs make-yosys netlist drift
+   surfaces in `checkMetadata.py` as:
+
+       [WARN] synth__canonical_netlist__hash differs test: <bazel-sha> == <make-sha>
+       [WARN] synth__netlist__hash differs test: <bazel-sha> == <make-sha>
+
+   A QoR threshold breaking together with that warning is almost
+   always yosys-env drift. Confirm with the per-stage `.odb` SHA
+   matrix from `@bazel-orfs//:make-yosys-netlist` (feeds make's
+   netlist into bazel) or its reverse-direction sibling
+   `@bazel-orfs//:yosys-check` (bazel's netlist into make):
 
    ```bash
    bazelisk run @bazel-orfs//:make-yosys-netlist \
        //flow/designs/asap7/<design>:<design>_test
    ```
 
-   All stages MATCH in the `bazel+make-netlist` column → false
-   positive, ignore (or relax the threshold). Any DIFFER → real
-   bazel-vs-make OpenROAD divergence — file the per-stage SHA
-   matrix as an issue. `@bazel-orfs//:yosys-check` is the
-   reverse-direction wrapper (bazel's netlist into make).
-
-   Full workflow + interpretation, the `SYNTH_NETLIST_FILES` manual
-   override, and the `BLOCKS=` caveat live in
+   All stages MATCH → yosys-only drift, relax the threshold; any
+   DIFFER → real bazel-vs-make OpenROAD divergence, file the matrix
+   as an issue. Full workflow lives in
    [`@bazel-orfs//:TESTING.md`](https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs/blob/main/TESTING.md)
    under "Debugging OpenROAD determinism (bazel vs make)".
 

From 2cf32de9e15e2f8f271ca4b82557e479c71424ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:22:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 06/22] flow: bisect bazel-vs-make yosys drift with a pre-ABC
 hash
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

`synth__canonical_netlist__hash` (1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil,
post-front-end) and `synth__netlist__hash` (1_2_yosys.v, post-ABC)
already exist as warning-level entries in `rules-base.json`.  On
asap7/uart both already DIFFER between bazel-pinned yosys and
make-pulled `tools/install` yosys (`cff062a8…` vs `6e8e16e4…`, and
`ab8b0b69…` vs `95652d90…` respectively), so the post-ABC hash on
its own can't tell us whether the drift is yosys-internal
non-determinism (read_verilog / hierarchy / opt_clean / techmap /
dfflibmap) or an ABC version mismatch.

Add a third fingerprint immediately before the main `abc` call in
synth.tcl:

    [WARN] synth__canonical_netlist__hash differs ...   # front-end snapshot
    [WARN] synth__preabc_netlist__hash    differs ...   # mid-level synth
    [WARN] synth__netlist__hash           differs ...   # post-ABC

The pre-ABC snapshot is computed by `write_rtlil` to a temp path,
`exec sha1sum`, file delete, then `puts` of the hash to the yosys
log.  The full RTLIL is never shipped as a bazel artifact — only
the 40-char SHA in `1_2_yosys.log`, which is already collected by
the synth action.  `extractTagFromFile` in `genMetrics.py` regex-
greps the line; the corresponding `level: warning` rule entry lives
alongside the other two in `genRuleFile.py`.

`flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json` is regenerated via
`make … metadata update_rules` so the third field is populated from
make-yosys.  Re-running `bazelisk test //flow/designs/asap7/uart:
uart_test` then surfaces three warnings: `71b3e9b0…` vs `4ab7b670…`
for the new pre-ABC bucket, confirming drift is already present
mid-yosys (i.e., not only ABC).

Two supporting plumbing changes ride along:

* `MODULE.bazel` gains `patches =` on the bazel-orfs `git_override`,
  pointing at the new `patches/bazel-orfs/` directory.  The first
  vendored patch teaches `orfs_generate_metadata` to pull synth's
  outputs in via `data =` — without it the post-ABC
  `synth__netlist__hash` lands as `N/A` because `1_2_yosys.v`
  isn't otherwise in the metadata action's sandbox.  Vendoring
  here keeps small bazel-orfs fixes in this PR while we iterate;
  when the patch lands upstream, drop the entry and bump
  `BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT`.

* `flow/README.md` "Triaging a failing `_test`" bucket #2 is
  rewritten to document the three-way bisection.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |  9 +++
 flow/README.md                                | 26 ++++----
 flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json       |  5 ++
 flow/scripts/synth.tcl                        | 17 ++++++
 flow/util/genMetrics.py                       | 25 ++++++--
 flow/util/genRuleFile.py                      |  5 ++
 ...nth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch | 60 +++++++++++++++++++
 patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel                |  8 +++
 8 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index ed6257160d..b8b4dea800 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -41,10 +41,19 @@ BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "c000cb3fa5c756841de0411f848a211c360468c2"
 BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 
 # To bump version, run: bazelisk run @bazel-orfs//:bump
+#
+# `patches =` keeps small bazel-orfs fixes vendored in this repo
+# while we iterate, instead of round-tripping every change through a
+# bazel-orfs PR + pin bump.  When a patch lands upstream, drop the
+# entry here and bump BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT.
 git_override(
     module_name = "bazel-orfs",
     commit = BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT,
     remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
+    patch_strip = 1,
+    patches = [
+        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch",
+    ],
 )
 
 git_override(
diff --git a/flow/README.md b/flow/README.md
index 333a1e921e..1b62058383 100644
--- a/flow/README.md
+++ b/flow/README.md
@@ -101,17 +101,21 @@ For each failing `<design>_test`, decide which bucket it falls into:
    bazel-orfs validates against.
 
 2. **Yosys-environment false positive (OpenROAD is idempotent given
-   the same netlist).** `rules-base.json` carries SHA-1 fingerprints
-   of `1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil` and `1_2_yosys.v`
-   (`synth__canonical_netlist__hash` /  `synth__netlist__hash`) at
-   warning level, so a bazel-yosys vs make-yosys netlist drift
-   surfaces in `checkMetadata.py` as:
-
-       [WARN] synth__canonical_netlist__hash differs test: <bazel-sha> == <make-sha>
-       [WARN] synth__netlist__hash differs test: <bazel-sha> == <make-sha>
-
-   A QoR threshold breaking together with that warning is almost
-   always yosys-env drift. Confirm with the per-stage `.odb` SHA
+   the same netlist).** `rules-base.json` carries three SHA-1
+   fingerprints of yosys' internal state at warning level so a
+   bazel-yosys vs make-yosys drift surfaces in `checkMetadata.py`
+   as three buckets:
+
+       [WARN] synth__canonical_netlist__hash differs test: <bazel> == <make>   # front-end + opt_clean
+       [WARN] synth__preabc_netlist__hash    differs test: <bazel> == <make>   # mid-level synth, immediately pre-ABC
+       [WARN] synth__netlist__hash           differs test: <bazel> == <make>   # post-ABC `1_2_yosys.v`
+
+   The bucket(s) that DIFFER bisect where drift entered: front-end
+   already differing means iteration-order non-determinism is firing
+   in `read_design_sources`/`hierarchy`/`opt_clean`; pre-ABC matching
+   but post-ABC diverging means the bazel-pinned vs make-pulled ABC
+   are different revisions. A QoR threshold breaking together with
+   any of these is almost always yosys-env drift. Confirm with the per-stage `.odb` SHA
    matrix from `@bazel-orfs//:make-yosys-netlist` (feeds make's
    netlist into bazel) or its reverse-direction sibling
    `@bazel-orfs//:yosys-check` (bazel's netlist into make):
diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
index 4372d0de58..5df703181b 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
+    "synth__preabc_netlist__hash": {
+        "value": "4ab7b6700d9ca14e2ee4531aceb79b339aabca73",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
     "synth__netlist__hash": {
         "value": "95652d905a7cf9bc9c935a58e01a76e65327c8b3",
         "compare": "==",
diff --git a/flow/scripts/synth.tcl b/flow/scripts/synth.tcl
index fa79829904..192509515d 100644
--- a/flow/scripts/synth.tcl
+++ b/flow/scripts/synth.tcl
@@ -248,6 +248,23 @@ opt
 # Replace undef values with defined constants
 setundef -zero
 
+# Fingerprint the design state immediately before ABC runs so the
+# `synth__preabc_netlist__hash` rules-base.json check can isolate
+# mid-level-yosys drift from ABC drift.  Combined with
+# `synth__canonical_netlist__hash` (front-end + opt_clean snapshot)
+# and `synth__netlist__hash` (post-ABC `1_2_yosys.v`), this gives a
+# three-way bisection: front-end vs mid-level synth vs ABC.
+#
+# The RTLIL itself is written to a temp path, hashed, and deleted —
+# we only ship the SHA in the yosys log so we don't burden bazel's
+# action outputs with another large netlist artifact.  See
+# flow/util/genMetrics.py for the matching log-extraction.
+set preabc_tmp $::env(RESULTS_DIR)/1_2_yosys_preabc.rtlil
+write_rtlil $preabc_tmp
+set preabc_sha [lindex [split [exec sha1sum $preabc_tmp]] 0]
+file delete $preabc_tmp
+puts "synth__preabc_netlist__hash: $preabc_sha"
+
 if {
   ![env_var_exists_and_non_empty SYNTH_WRAPPED_OPERATORS] &&
   ![env_var_exists_and_non_empty SWAP_ARITH_OPERATORS]
diff --git a/flow/util/genMetrics.py b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
index 6424712e27..5f8ddfc2eb 100755
--- a/flow/util/genMetrics.py
+++ b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
@@ -262,13 +262,30 @@ def extract_metrics(
         rptPath + "/synth_stat.txt",
     )
 
-    # Netlist hashes: fingerprints of the canonical RTLIL (pre-ABC) and
-    # the final post-synthesis Verilog so the rules-base.json check
-    # (level=warning) flags when bazel-built vs make-built yosys
-    # disagree for the same RTL.
+    # Netlist hashes: front-end / mid-level / post-ABC fingerprints
+    # so the rules-base.json check (level=warning) flags where bazel-
+    # built vs make-built yosys diverge. See flow/README.md "Triaging
+    # a failing _test" → "Yosys-environment false positive".
+    #
+    #   canonical = after `read_design_sources` + `hierarchy -check` +
+    #               `opt_clean -purge` (front-end snapshot)
+    #   preabc    = immediately before the main `abc` call (after
+    #               techmap, dfflibmap, setundef etc.)
+    #   netlist   = `1_2_yosys.v`, post-ABC
     metrics_dict["synth__canonical_netlist__hash"] = file_sha1(
         resultPath + "/1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil"
     )
+    # `synth__preabc_netlist__hash` is emitted by synth.tcl as a
+    # `synth__preabc_netlist__hash: <sha>` line in 1_2_yosys.log so we
+    # don't have to ship the full pre-ABC RTLIL as a bazel artifact.
+    extractTagFromFile(
+        "synth__preabc_netlist__hash",
+        metrics_dict,
+        r"^synth__preabc_netlist__hash:\s+([0-9a-f]{40})\s*$",
+        logPath + "/1_2_yosys.log",
+        t=str,
+        required=False,
+    )
     metrics_dict["synth__netlist__hash"] = file_sha1(resultPath + "/1_2_yosys.v")
 
     # Clocks
diff --git a/flow/util/genRuleFile.py b/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
index 358d59231e..df277197d7 100755
--- a/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
+++ b/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ def gen_rule_file(
             "compare": "==",
             "level": "warning",
         },
+        "synth__preabc_netlist__hash": {
+            "mode": "literal",
+            "compare": "==",
+            "level": "warning",
+        },
         "synth__netlist__hash": {
             "mode": "literal",
             "compare": "==",
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bcb86bd820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+From fbed7c49ffe59cd66e7587c8692dd41c4c498dcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
+Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:52:56 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] flow.bzl: pull synth into generate_metadata data deps
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+`orfs_generate_metadata`'s action only sees files that reach it via
+the floorplan→cts forwarding chain (`forwarded_names = [CANON_OUTPUT]`)
+plus whatever's passed in `data =`.  The chain forwards
+`1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil` but not the post-ABC netlist, so
+`genMetrics.py` reads `1_2_yosys.v` from a path that does not exist
+in the sandbox and `synth__netlist__hash` lands in `metadata.json`
+as `N/A`.
+
+The metadata test rule then surfaces:
+
+    [WARN] synth__netlist__hash differs test: N/A == <make-sha>
+
+— a useful tell only by accident, since any non-match yields N/A.
+
+Add the synth step as a data dependency to the metadata step;
+synth's DefaultInfo already exposes every result file (canon RTLIL,
+`1_2_yosys.v`, `1_2_yosys.sdc`, `1_synth.sdc`, …) so this one line
+is enough.  Touching every downstream stage's `forwarded_names` to
+thread the netlist through floorplan→final would work too but is
+considerably more invasive.
+
+Verified on `//flow/designs/asap7/uart:uart_test`: bazel-side hash
+moves from `N/A` to `ab8b0b69a2897be911f6f1bd7d0de1649160bc2a`
+(make-side baseline `95652d905a7cf9bc9c935a58e01a76e65327c8b3`).
+
+Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
+---
+ private/flow.bzl | 8 ++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/private/flow.bzl b/private/flow.bzl
+index b59d059..1519eb8 100644
+--- a/private/flow.bzl
++++ b/private/flow.bzl
+@@ -769,6 +769,14 @@ def _orfs_pass(
+             data = [
+                 # Need 2_floorplan.sdc
+                 _step_name(name, variant, "floorplan"),
++                # Need 1_2_yosys.v for `synth__netlist__hash` and any
++                # other genMetrics.py field that reads synth results
++                # past the canonicalize RTLIL.  Only canonicalize is
++                # threaded through `forwarded_names = [CANON_OUTPUT]`
++                # along the floorplan→cts chain; the post-ABC netlist
++                # is not.  Pulling synth's outputs in via `data =`
++                # gives metadata access without touching every stage.
++                _step_name(name, variant, "synth"),
+             ],
+             kwargs = kwargs,
+         )
+-- 
+2.51.0
+
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel b/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5bfbcbe26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+"""Vendored patches applied on top of the bazel-orfs git_override pin.
+
+These are small fixes we keep here to reduce churn while iterating;
+when they land upstream, drop the entry from MODULE.bazel and bump
+BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT instead.
+"""
+
+exports_files(glob(["*.patch"]))

From 6dbaac93770c260ade848199ae44020ae60218b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 17:25:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 07/22] flow: capture yosys/abc versions + bump submodule to
 v0.65 for same-version compare
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The previous three-way `synth__*_netlist__hash` diagnostic on
asap7/uart fired all three warnings, but the canonical-RTLIL
header diff turned out to be dominated by a yosys version skew:
`tools/install/yosys` reported `Yosys 0.63`, the bazel-pinned
yosys reported `Yosys 0.65` (BCR PR registry override), and the
`tools/yosys` submodule was at the v0.64 release commit — three
versions across three places. Without surfacing the versions in
`rules-base.json`, the version skew is invisible to
`checkMetadata.py` and easy to misread as non-determinism.

Two changes:

* Add `synth__yosys__version` and `synth__abc__version` literal
  warning-level rule entries.
  - yosys version: `extractTagFromFile` on `1_2_yosys.log` line 1
    (the yosys banner), regex `^Yosys (\S+)`.
  - abc version: `synth_preamble.tcl` runs
    `yosys-abc -c "version; quit"` via `exec` using the
    `YOSYS_EXE` env var that `flow/scripts/variables.mk` exports,
    extracts the "UC Berkeley, ABC <ver>" line and `puts` it to
    the same log; `genMetrics.py` extracts via
    `extractTagFromFile`.

  Now `[WARN] synth__yosys__version differs test: 0.65 == 0.63`
  appears directly above the netlist-hash warnings whenever the
  underlying binaries diverge.

* Bump `tools/yosys` submodule from `8449dd470` (v0.64 release)
  to `b85cad634` (v0.65 release, fetched from
  github.com/YosysHQ/yosys.git since The-OpenROAD-Project fork
  hasn't synced 0.65 yet).

`flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json` is regenerated from
`make … metadata update_rules` against the fresh
`tools/install/yosys` 0.65 build, so the baseline hashes belong
to make-yosys-0.65 rather than the previous 0.63 build. Several
timing thresholds tighten by ~30% (`cts__timing__setup__tns`
-1190 → -826, `finish__timing__setup__ws` -46.9 → -35.8 etc.) —
that's yosys 0.65's better QoR over 0.63, not a regression.

Same-version verification: `tools/install/yosys/bin/yosys -V`
and `bazel-out/.../external/yosys+/yosys -V` both report
`Yosys 0.65`; `synth__yosys__version` and `synth__abc__version`
both pass on bazel `_test`. But the three netlist hashes
*still* differ — `cff062a8…` vs `51e1c96c…` on canonical, etc.
A line-level diff on the canonicalize RTLIL (`autoidx 5145` is
identical on both sides) shows a systematic `+3` offset on the
`$<N>y` wire-counter names, indicating the bazel build performs
~3 extra wire-create operations earlier in the front-end that
the make build does not. This is real bazel-vs-make build-
environment non-determinism in yosys 0.65, distinct from the
version skew that caused the earlier confusion. Next investigation
should narrow which canonicalize step
(`read_design_sources` / `hierarchy -check` / `opt_clean -purge`)
contributes the +3 wires.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json | 26 +++++++++++++++++--------
 flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl         | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 flow/util/genMetrics.py                 | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 flow/util/genRuleFile.py                | 10 ++++++++++
 tools/yosys                             |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
index 5df703181b..01e199bad2 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
 {
+    "synth__yosys__version": {
+        "value": "0.65",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
+    "synth__abc__version": {
+        "value": "1.01",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
     "synth__canonical_netlist__hash": {
-        "value": "6e8e16e4f9bdb0e3756653c3bd31fb223f21b445",
+        "value": "51e1c96c1cbd84acbe6094554dfc328512dada66",
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
     "synth__preabc_netlist__hash": {
-        "value": "4ab7b6700d9ca14e2ee4531aceb79b339aabca73",
+        "value": "f1b261b2a091a9be65c846a11f71588d55210cee",
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
     "synth__netlist__hash": {
-        "value": "95652d905a7cf9bc9c935a58e01a76e65327c8b3",
+        "value": "11a8cf6937376ae7e00f0afeee5304fa944a145e",
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
@@ -47,7 +57,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -1190.0,
+        "value": -826.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -63,11 +73,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -62.2,
+        "value": -48.5,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -2090.0,
+        "value": -1500.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -95,11 +105,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -46.9,
+        "value": -35.8,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -1230.0,
+        "value": -707.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
diff --git a/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl b/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
index af43512c0f..d5c5fdd26c 100644
--- a/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
+++ b/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
@@ -3,6 +3,31 @@ yosys -import
 source $::env(SCRIPTS_DIR)/util.tcl
 erase_non_stage_variables synth
 
+# Emit the ABC version into the yosys log so `genMetrics.py` can pick
+# it up as `synth__abc__version` (a literal warning-level entry in
+# `rules-base.json`).  Combined with the yosys version banner already
+# at the top of 1_2_yosys.log, this surfaces bazel-vs-make version
+# skew directly in `checkMetadata.py` output — the trap that caused
+# the earlier "front-end non-determinism" misdiagnosis.  See
+# flow/README.md "Triaging a failing `_test`" → "Yosys-environment
+# false positive".
+if { [catch {
+  # `flow/scripts/variables.mk` exports YOSYS_EXE — yosys-abc is its
+  # sibling.  `info nameofexecutable` returns "./yosys-abc" under
+  # yosys' embedded tcl, which doesn't resolve at runtime; the
+  # exported absolute path is the reliable handle.
+  set _abc_path [file join [file dirname $::env(YOSYS_EXE)] yosys-abc]
+  set _abc_raw [exec $_abc_path -c "version; quit" 2>@1]
+  foreach _line [split $_abc_raw "\n"] {
+    if { [regexp {^UC Berkeley,\s+ABC\s+(\S+)} $_line -> _abc_ver] } {
+      puts "synth__abc__version: $_abc_ver"
+      break
+    }
+  }
+} _err] } {
+  puts "\[WARN\] synth__abc__version extraction failed: $_err"
+}
+
 # If using a cached, gate level netlist, then copy over to the results dir with
 # preserve timestamps flag set. If you don't, subsequent runs will cause the
 # floorplan step to be re-executed.
diff --git a/flow/util/genMetrics.py b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
index 5f8ddfc2eb..46ad9940bb 100755
--- a/flow/util/genMetrics.py
+++ b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
@@ -288,6 +288,29 @@ def extract_metrics(
     )
     metrics_dict["synth__netlist__hash"] = file_sha1(resultPath + "/1_2_yosys.v")
 
+    # Yosys + ABC version fingerprints — surface bazel-vs-make
+    # version skew directly in `checkMetadata.py` output so a netlist
+    # hash diff isn't first mistaken for non-determinism. The yosys
+    # banner is the very first line of `1_2_yosys.log`; ABC's version
+    # is `puts`-emitted by `synth_preamble.tcl` from
+    # `yosys-abc -c "version; quit"` so it lands in the same log.
+    extractTagFromFile(
+        "synth__yosys__version",
+        metrics_dict,
+        r"^Yosys\s+(\S+)",
+        logPath + "/1_2_yosys.log",
+        t=str,
+        required=False,
+    )
+    extractTagFromFile(
+        "synth__abc__version",
+        metrics_dict,
+        r"^synth__abc__version:\s+(.+?)\s*$",
+        logPath + "/1_2_yosys.log",
+        t=str,
+        required=False,
+    )
+
     # Clocks
     # =========================================================================
     clk_list = read_sdc(resultPath + "/2_floorplan.sdc")
diff --git a/flow/util/genRuleFile.py b/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
index df277197d7..2d3cf1912d 100755
--- a/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
+++ b/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
@@ -79,6 +79,16 @@ def gen_rule_file(
         # surfaces as a [WARN] diagnostic in checkMetadata.py without
         # failing the build, matching how rules-base.json already
         # treats warning counts.
+        "synth__yosys__version": {
+            "mode": "literal",
+            "compare": "==",
+            "level": "warning",
+        },
+        "synth__abc__version": {
+            "mode": "literal",
+            "compare": "==",
+            "level": "warning",
+        },
         "synth__canonical_netlist__hash": {
             "mode": "literal",
             "compare": "==",
diff --git a/tools/yosys b/tools/yosys
index 8449dd4700..b85cad6347 160000
--- a/tools/yosys
+++ b/tools/yosys
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 8449dd4700821ea021b241a6addaaf8ccd171dfc
+Subproject commit b85cad634782fafac275e5f540c056bfacb2b5d2

From 3e5728859ac592e58647c68044f9a64cc9e46e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 17:35:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 08/22] =?UTF-8?q?flow:=20drill=20down=20=E2=80=94=20non-de?=
 =?UTF-8?q?terminism=20enters=20in=20read=5Fdesign=5Fsources?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The earlier three-way hash (`canonical`, `preabc`, `netlist`) showed
all three differing between bazel-yosys and make-yosys even at
matching versions (Yosys 0.65, ABC 1.01), but couldn't pinpoint
which yosys pass introduces the drift.  This commit adds three
more hash points to bisect:

  post_read_sources : after `read_design_sources` (verilog/slang frontend only)
  post_hierarchy    : after `hierarchy -check -top` (elaboration order)
  canonical_netlist : after `opt_clean -purge` (existing)
  post_synth_main   : after `synth -run fine: -noabc` (main synth pipeline)
  preabc_netlist    : immediately before `abc` (existing)
  netlist           : post-ABC `1_2_yosys.v` (existing)

Mechanism: `synth_preamble.tcl` defines a `write_state_hash` tcl
proc that `setattr -unset src */mod` (so paths in src attributes
don't make the hash bazel-vs-make path-dependent), `write_rtlil`
to a temp, sha1sum, deletes the temp, and `puts` a
`<metric>: <sha>` line to the yosys log.  `genMetrics.py` greps
the lines via `extractTagFromFile`.  No new bazel artifacts ship;
the existing `1_1_yosys_canonicalize.log` / `1_2_yosys.log` carry
the SHAs.

The `setattr -unset src` strip is now unconditional (the
`SYNTH_REPEATABLE_BUILD`-gated block in `synth_canonicalize.tcl`
becomes redundant since `write_state_hash` strips on first call;
left in place as harmless idempotent backup).  Src attributes are
debug metadata that no downstream pass relies on for decisions.

Verification on asap7/uart with same-version yosys/ABC on both
sides:

    [INFO] synth__yosys__version pass test: 0.65 == 0.65
    [INFO] synth__abc__version pass test: 1.01 == 1.01
    [WARN] synth__post_read_sources__hash differs test: 39c975e8... == fc8ed9cc...
    [WARN] synth__post_hierarchy__hash    differs test: 39c975e8... == fc8ed9cc...
    [WARN] synth__canonical_netlist__hash differs test: c1269aa7... == 579a132d...
    [WARN] synth__post_synth_main__hash   differs test: 0cb19660... == 022a854d...
    [WARN] synth__preabc_netlist__hash    differs test: 49c7bd07... == 6a40bd28...
    [WARN] synth__netlist__hash           differs test: 5ed342e4... == c3163e94...

Two findings fall out:

1. Non-determinism is born at `post_read_sources`.  `hierarchy
   -check` is a no-op for uart (slang has already elaborated the
   top); `post_hierarchy` matches `post_read_sources` exactly on
   both sides.  Every subsequent pass (opt_clean, synth pipeline,
   techmap+dfflibmap, ABC) faithfully propagates the entering
   divergence but does not introduce new divergence between bazel
   and make.

2. The slang frontend call is therefore the proximate site of the
   drift.  Mechanism is consistent with yosys' pointer-keyed
   `IdString`/`dict` iteration: different memory layouts in the
   bazel-built and make-built yosys binaries assign different
   counter values to anonymous wires (visible as systematic `+3`
   offsets in `$<N>y` wire names in the canonical RTLIL diff).

Next investigation: which yosys API call in `read_slang`'s
implementation allocates IdStrings/dicts/pools in pointer order?
That's the patch site.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json | 21 +++++++--
 flow/scripts/synth.tcl                  | 18 ++-----
 flow/scripts/synth_canonicalize.tcl     |  6 +++
 flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl         | 25 ++++++++++
 flow/util/genMetrics.py                 | 62 +++++++++++++++++--------
 flow/util/genRuleFile.py                | 15 ++++++
 6 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
index 01e199bad2..0ab2db9edd 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/uart/rules-base.json
@@ -9,18 +9,33 @@
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
+    "synth__post_read_sources__hash": {
+        "value": "fc8ed9cca61614e52bc7621061eb3fea9fc09786",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
+    "synth__post_hierarchy__hash": {
+        "value": "fc8ed9cca61614e52bc7621061eb3fea9fc09786",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
     "synth__canonical_netlist__hash": {
-        "value": "51e1c96c1cbd84acbe6094554dfc328512dada66",
+        "value": "579a132d7bd12d7a17c960889a88a625ba1bd761",
+        "compare": "==",
+        "level": "warning"
+    },
+    "synth__post_synth_main__hash": {
+        "value": "022a854dceb7dfe23c650b960efd4a8bbf580602",
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
     "synth__preabc_netlist__hash": {
-        "value": "f1b261b2a091a9be65c846a11f71588d55210cee",
+        "value": "6a40bd282d816cd8c48a4cbb4a8ceabc365ca6fb",
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
     "synth__netlist__hash": {
-        "value": "11a8cf6937376ae7e00f0afeee5304fa944a145e",
+        "value": "c3163e9457e39e5d07c4030ce974232fc9e36f66",
         "compare": "==",
         "level": "warning"
     },
diff --git a/flow/scripts/synth.tcl b/flow/scripts/synth.tcl
index 192509515d..a6548f2817 100644
--- a/flow/scripts/synth.tcl
+++ b/flow/scripts/synth.tcl
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ if {
 } else {
   synth -top $::env(DESIGN_NAME) -run fine: -noabc {*}$synth_full_args
 }
+write_state_hash synth__post_synth_main__hash
 
 # Get rid of indigestibles
 chformal -remove
@@ -250,20 +251,9 @@ setundef -zero
 
 # Fingerprint the design state immediately before ABC runs so the
 # `synth__preabc_netlist__hash` rules-base.json check can isolate
-# mid-level-yosys drift from ABC drift.  Combined with
-# `synth__canonical_netlist__hash` (front-end + opt_clean snapshot)
-# and `synth__netlist__hash` (post-ABC `1_2_yosys.v`), this gives a
-# three-way bisection: front-end vs mid-level synth vs ABC.
-#
-# The RTLIL itself is written to a temp path, hashed, and deleted —
-# we only ship the SHA in the yosys log so we don't burden bazel's
-# action outputs with another large netlist artifact.  See
-# flow/util/genMetrics.py for the matching log-extraction.
-set preabc_tmp $::env(RESULTS_DIR)/1_2_yosys_preabc.rtlil
-write_rtlil $preabc_tmp
-set preabc_sha [lindex [split [exec sha1sum $preabc_tmp]] 0]
-file delete $preabc_tmp
-puts "synth__preabc_netlist__hash: $preabc_sha"
+# mid-level-yosys drift from ABC drift.  See `write_state_hash` in
+# synth_preamble.tcl for the dump+sha+delete mechanism.
+write_state_hash synth__preabc_netlist__hash
 
 if {
   ![env_var_exists_and_non_empty SYNTH_WRAPPED_OPERATORS] &&
diff --git a/flow/scripts/synth_canonicalize.tcl b/flow/scripts/synth_canonicalize.tcl
index 4ba62a4523..c8509963f0 100644
--- a/flow/scripts/synth_canonicalize.tcl
+++ b/flow/scripts/synth_canonicalize.tcl
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 source $::env(SCRIPTS_DIR)/synth_preamble.tcl
 read_design_sources
+write_state_hash synth__post_read_sources__hash
 
 hierarchy -check -top $::env(DESIGN_NAME)
+write_state_hash synth__post_hierarchy__hash
 
 source_env_var_if_exists SYNTH_CANONICALIZE_TCL
 
 # Get rid of unused modules
 opt_clean -purge
+# `write_state_hash` above already stripped src attrs, so the
+# SYNTH_REPEATABLE_BUILD-gated stripping below is now redundant for
+# this script.  Kept harmless (idempotent) for callers that source
+# SYNTH_CANONICALIZE_TCL hooks that may re-introduce src attrs.
 if { $::env(SYNTH_REPEATABLE_BUILD) } {
   # avoid source line and path info affecting the hash
   setattr -unset src *
diff --git a/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl b/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
index d5c5fdd26c..fcacc23d94 100644
--- a/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
+++ b/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
@@ -3,6 +3,31 @@ yosys -import
 source $::env(SCRIPTS_DIR)/util.tcl
 erase_non_stage_variables synth
 
+# Bisect bazel-vs-make yosys drift into front-end / hierarchy /
+# mid-level synth / pre-ABC / post-ABC buckets.  write_state_hash
+# dumps the current design state to a temp RTLIL, SHA-1's it,
+# deletes the temp, and emits a `<metric>: <sha>` line for
+# `genMetrics.py` to extract from the surrounding yosys log.  No
+# new bazel artifacts are shipped — only the hash strings in the
+# existing 1_1_yosys_canonicalize.log / 1_2_yosys.log files.
+#
+# `setattr -unset src` strips file:line attribute lines from the
+# RTLIL before hashing so the hash is path-independent (bazel
+# sandbox paths differ from the make build's relative paths;
+# without stripping, hashes always differ trivially).  The strip
+# is permanent for the rest of the yosys run, matching the
+# SYNTH_REPEATABLE_BUILD=1 path's behavior — src attributes are
+# debug metadata that no downstream pass relies on for decisions.
+proc write_state_hash { metric } {
+  setattr -unset src *
+  setattr -mod -unset src *
+  set tmp $::env(RESULTS_DIR)/.${metric}.tmp.rtlil
+  write_rtlil $tmp
+  set sha [lindex [split [exec sha1sum $tmp]] 0]
+  file delete $tmp
+  puts "${metric}: $sha"
+}
+
 # Emit the ABC version into the yosys log so `genMetrics.py` can pick
 # it up as `synth__abc__version` (a literal warning-level entry in
 # `rules-base.json`).  Combined with the yosys version banner already
diff --git a/flow/util/genMetrics.py b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
index 46ad9940bb..e8ca88052a 100755
--- a/flow/util/genMetrics.py
+++ b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
@@ -262,30 +262,52 @@ def extract_metrics(
         rptPath + "/synth_stat.txt",
     )
 
-    # Netlist hashes: front-end / mid-level / post-ABC fingerprints
-    # so the rules-base.json check (level=warning) flags where bazel-
-    # built vs make-built yosys diverge. See flow/README.md "Triaging
-    # a failing _test" → "Yosys-environment false positive".
+    # Yosys-state fingerprints — front-end through post-ABC — so the
+    # rules-base.json `level=warning` checks flag where bazel-built
+    # vs make-built yosys diverge. See flow/README.md "Triaging a
+    # failing _test" → "Yosys-environment false positive".
     #
-    #   canonical = after `read_design_sources` + `hierarchy -check` +
-    #               `opt_clean -purge` (front-end snapshot)
-    #   preabc    = immediately before the main `abc` call (after
-    #               techmap, dfflibmap, setundef etc.)
-    #   netlist   = `1_2_yosys.v`, post-ABC
+    #   post_read_sources = after `read_design_sources`
+    #                       (verilog/slang frontend only)
+    #   post_hierarchy    = after `hierarchy -check -top`
+    #                       (elaboration order)
+    #   canonical_netlist = after `opt_clean -purge`
+    #                       (= `1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil`)
+    #   post_synth_main   = after `synth -run fine: -noabc`
+    #                       (main synth pipeline)
+    #   preabc_netlist    = immediately before the main `abc` call
+    #                       (techmap, dfflibmap, setundef etc.)
+    #   netlist           = `1_2_yosys.v`, post-ABC
+    #
+    # All except `canonical_netlist` and `netlist` are emitted by
+    # synth.tcl / synth_canonicalize.tcl via the `write_state_hash`
+    # helper as `<metric>: <sha>` lines in the surrounding yosys log
+    # (1_1_yosys_canonicalize.log or 1_2_yosys.log).  `canonical`
+    # and post-ABC come straight from `file_sha1` of the
+    # already-emitted RTLIL / Verilog.
+    for metric in ("synth__post_read_sources__hash",
+                   "synth__post_hierarchy__hash"):
+        extractTagFromFile(
+            metric,
+            metrics_dict,
+            rf"^{metric}:\s+([0-9a-f]{{40}})\s*$",
+            logPath + "/1_1_yosys_canonicalize.log",
+            t=str,
+            required=False,
+        )
     metrics_dict["synth__canonical_netlist__hash"] = file_sha1(
         resultPath + "/1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil"
     )
-    # `synth__preabc_netlist__hash` is emitted by synth.tcl as a
-    # `synth__preabc_netlist__hash: <sha>` line in 1_2_yosys.log so we
-    # don't have to ship the full pre-ABC RTLIL as a bazel artifact.
-    extractTagFromFile(
-        "synth__preabc_netlist__hash",
-        metrics_dict,
-        r"^synth__preabc_netlist__hash:\s+([0-9a-f]{40})\s*$",
-        logPath + "/1_2_yosys.log",
-        t=str,
-        required=False,
-    )
+    for metric in ("synth__post_synth_main__hash",
+                   "synth__preabc_netlist__hash"):
+        extractTagFromFile(
+            metric,
+            metrics_dict,
+            rf"^{metric}:\s+([0-9a-f]{{40}})\s*$",
+            logPath + "/1_2_yosys.log",
+            t=str,
+            required=False,
+        )
     metrics_dict["synth__netlist__hash"] = file_sha1(resultPath + "/1_2_yosys.v")
 
     # Yosys + ABC version fingerprints — surface bazel-vs-make
diff --git a/flow/util/genRuleFile.py b/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
index 2d3cf1912d..8ef3fde1ac 100755
--- a/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
+++ b/flow/util/genRuleFile.py
@@ -89,11 +89,26 @@ def gen_rule_file(
             "compare": "==",
             "level": "warning",
         },
+        "synth__post_read_sources__hash": {
+            "mode": "literal",
+            "compare": "==",
+            "level": "warning",
+        },
+        "synth__post_hierarchy__hash": {
+            "mode": "literal",
+            "compare": "==",
+            "level": "warning",
+        },
         "synth__canonical_netlist__hash": {
             "mode": "literal",
             "compare": "==",
             "level": "warning",
         },
+        "synth__post_synth_main__hash": {
+            "mode": "literal",
+            "compare": "==",
+            "level": "warning",
+        },
         "synth__preabc_netlist__hash": {
             "mode": "literal",
             "compare": "==",

From 6686096135ef17eff1ac2cf9ef1828e98683112c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 14:42:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 09/22] bazel: enable blender 3D-viewer targets on every
 supported-PDK design
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Flip `blender = True` once, globally, in flow/designs/design.bzl's
design() wrapper.  Every design routes through this single funnel,
so this is the only ORFS-side line that changes.

Two small bazel-orfs patches make the global flip safe:

  0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
    Exposes `blender_supports_pdk(pdk)`.  Lets callers ask "does this
    PDK have a BlenderGDS stackup?" without provoking the loud
    fail() in _pdk_to_blendergds (which we keep — it's a useful guard
    for anyone calling orfs_blender() directly with a bogus PDK).

  0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch
    Adds a `blender = False` parameter to orfs_design() and forwards
    it to orfs_flow().  When True but the design's PDK is unsupported
    (asap7, nangate45, …) the request silently downgrades to False,
    so no `_blender*` targets are declared and @blender / @blendergds
    are never referenced by analysis.

Confirmed behaviour after these patches:

  * `bazelisk query //flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd:all` shows the 5
    `gcd_final_blender*` targets (sky130hd is supported).
  * `bazelisk query //flow/designs/asap7/gcd:all` shows none of them
    (asap7 has no BlenderGDS stackup — silent skip).
  * `bazelisk query 'tests(//flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd:all)'` returns
    only `gcd_test` — `tags = ["manual"]` keeps the blender targets
    out of `bazelisk test //...` wildcards.

`bazelisk build //flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd:gcd_final_blender_html`
runs the full physical-design flow to completion and then fails at
the orfs_gds klayout-merge step (klayout looks up klayout_tech.lef
under the non-sandbox execroot rather than the active processwrapper
sandbox).  That failure is in bazel-orfs's orfs_gds rule and surfaces
because orfs_blender exercises orfs_gds with the host PATH klayout
for the first time on this design; it is independent of these
patches and will be triaged separately.

bazel-orfs patches are vendored under patches/bazel-orfs/ via the
existing git_override(patches=…) mechanism.  Upstreaming is
deferred until the orfs_gds klayout-merge issue is sorted out, to
minimise bazel-orfs churn.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |  4 +-
 flow/designs/design.bzl                       |  1 +
 ...xport-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch | 45 ++++++++++++
 ...forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch | 70 +++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index b8b4dea800..af52bfc012 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -49,11 +49,13 @@ BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 git_override(
     module_name = "bazel-orfs",
     commit = BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT,
-    remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
     patch_strip = 1,
     patches = [
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch",
+        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch",
+        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch",
     ],
+    remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
 )
 
 git_override(
diff --git a/flow/designs/design.bzl b/flow/designs/design.bzl
index 09e0f99d0d..b4efc0b1d0 100644
--- a/flow/designs/design.bzl
+++ b/flow/designs/design.bzl
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ def design(config = "config.mk", user_arguments = [], user_sources = [], local_a
         user_arguments = user_arguments,
         user_sources = user_sources,
         local_arguments = local_arguments,
+        blender = True,
     )
 
 def files(group, extra_srcs = None):
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e51796f6c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 151270e17f51ab260bf0e9ad8479ccf009b02c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 14:35:12 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 2/3] blender.bzl: export blender_supports_pdk predicate
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Lets higher-level macros decide whether to request blender = True from
+orfs_flow without provoking the loud fail() in _pdk_to_blendergds.
+
+The next commit teaches orfs_design() to silently downgrade
+blender = True to False when the design's PDK has no BlenderGDS
+stackup, so a single project-wide `blender = True` flip in
+flow/designs/design.bzl on the ORFS side works across all PDKs.
+
+Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+---
+ private/blender.bzl | 10 ++++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/private/blender.bzl b/private/blender.bzl
+index 444c65c..bcafae6 100644
+--- a/private/blender.bzl
++++ b/private/blender.bzl
+@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ def _pdk_to_blendergds(pdk):
+         )
+     return _PDK_TO_BLENDERGDS[short]
+ 
++def blender_supports_pdk(pdk):
++    """True iff orfs_blender() will accept this PDK label.
++
++    Lets higher-level macros (e.g. orfs_design) decide whether to request
++    `blender = True` from orfs_flow without provoking the loud fail() in
++    _pdk_to_blendergds. Accepts either a bare short name (`"sky130hd"`)
++    or a label (`"//flow:sky130hd"`).
++    """
++    return _pdk_short_name(pdk) in _PDK_TO_BLENDERGDS
++
+ def _find_addon_root(addon_files):
+     """Locate the BlenderGDS addon root via the dir of __init__.py."""
+     for f in addon_files:
+-- 
+2.51.0
+
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33c7db7dcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+From cc811f203317da88f41bf6fcf19172e67b8ac797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 14:35:45 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 3/3] orfs_design.bzl: forward blender, silently skip
+ unsupported PDKs
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Add a pass-through `blender =` parameter to orfs_design().  When True,
+forward to orfs_flow() — but only if the design's PDK has a BlenderGDS
+stackup (per blender_supports_pdk).  On unsupported PDKs the request
+silently downgrades to False so no blender targets are declared and
+@blender / @blendergds are never referenced by analysis.
+
+Lets the ORFS-side design() wrapper turn on blender = True once,
+globally, without having to enumerate the supported PDK set itself.
+
+Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+---
+ private/orfs_design.bzl | 12 +++++++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/private/orfs_design.bzl b/private/orfs_design.bzl
+index d53d4bd..c663be0 100644
+--- a/private/orfs_design.bzl
++++ b/private/orfs_design.bzl
+@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ The orfs_designs repository rule (designs.bzl) must be instantiated
+ first to parse all config.mk files and generate the DESIGNS dict.
+ """
+ 
++load(
++    "//private:blender.bzl",
++    "blender_supports_pdk",
++)
+ load(
+     "//private:flow.bzl",
+     "orfs_flow",
+@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ def _convert_sources(sources, pkg):
+             result[var] = converted
+     return result
+ 
+-def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = None, designs = None, mock_openroad = None, mock_yosys = None, user_arguments = [], user_sources = [], local_arguments = []):  # buildifier: disable=unused-variable
++def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = None, designs = None, mock_openroad = None, mock_yosys = None, user_arguments = [], user_sources = [], local_arguments = [], blender = False):  # buildifier: disable=unused-variable
+     """Create orfs_flow() targets for a design based on its parsed config.mk.
+ 
+     Usage:
+@@ -92,6 +96,11 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
+             which appears verbatim inside VERILOG_FILES). These are
+             dropped entirely before orfs_flow() is invoked — neither
+             validated against variables.yaml nor exposed as env vars.
++        blender: if True, request the orfs_flow blender 3D-viewer targets
++            for this design. Silently downgraded to False on PDKs that
++            have no BlenderGDS stackup (see blender_supports_pdk in
++            private/blender.bzl), so callers can flip this on globally
++            without having to enumerate supported PDKs.
+     """
+     if designs == None:
+         fail("orfs_design() requires designs: load orfs_design from @orfs_designs//:designs.bzl")
+@@ -233,6 +242,7 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
+         macros = macros if macros else [],
+         stage_data = {"synth": extra_data} if extra_data else {},
+         tags = tags,
++        blender = blender and blender_supports_pdk("//flow:" + platform),
+     )
+ 
+     # Lint flow — fast validation with mock-openroad (only if configured)
+-- 
+2.51.0
+

From 378a3b34e4eb91421689a63b0e33c06fc9cd4b5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 15:10:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 10/22] =?UTF-8?q?fix(generate=5Fklayout=5Ftech):=20drop=20?=
 =?UTF-8?q?realpath()=20=E2=80=94=20breaks=20Bazel=20sandbox?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

os.path.realpath() follows symlinks.  Inside a Bazel sandbox, the
bazel-out/ tree is symlinked from the sandbox back to the bare
execroot; realpath resolves through that symlink and yields the
bare-execroot path, not the sandbox path.

That alone doesn't matter for os.path.relpath(a, b) when both
operands are realpath'd from the same sandbox — the relative
result is unchanged.  But the resulting <lef-files> path in the
generated klayout.lyt is later resolved by klayout against the LYT
file's location.  Klayout opens the LYT (also through a symlink),
resolves through to the bare execroot, and then looks for the
sibling klayout_tech.lef at the bare-execroot path — where the
in-flight file does not exist during action execution (only the
sandbox copy does), so def2stream fails with errno=2.

Fix: don't realpath.  os.path.relpath produces the correct relative
path from sandbox-relative inputs directly.  Map files keep their
absolute form via abspath for the unchanged-under-non-sandbox case.

Surfaced for the first time on bazelisk build
//flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd:gcd_final_blender_html — the
orfs_blender macro is the first bazel-side consumer of orfs_gds
(klayout def2stream), so the latent path bug had no prior trigger.

Mirrors bazel-orfs's patches/0037-fix-generate_klayout_tech-drop-realpath.patch
into ORFS directly so bazel-orfs no longer needs to carry it.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py b/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py
index c054945f71..032f896d2d 100644
--- a/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py
+++ b/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py
@@ -51,16 +51,15 @@ def generate_klayout_tech(
     with open(template_lyt, "r") as f:
         content = f.read()
 
-    # Both modes use relative paths from reference_dir, matching the
-    # original sed-based behavior which always uses realpath --relative-to.
-    resolved_lefs = [
-        os.path.relpath(os.path.realpath(f), os.path.realpath(reference_dir))
-        for f in lef_files
-    ]
+    # Compute relpath without realpath(): under a Bazel sandbox, bazel-out/
+    # entries are symlinks to the bare execroot; realpath follows them and
+    # makes the generated LYT reference files at the bare-execroot path,
+    # where in-flight outputs do not exist during action execution.
+    resolved_lefs = [os.path.relpath(f, reference_dir) for f in lef_files]
 
     content = replace_lef_files(content, resolved_lefs)
 
-    resolved_maps = [os.path.realpath(f) for f in map_files]
+    resolved_maps = [os.path.abspath(f) for f in map_files]
     content = replace_map_files(content, resolved_maps)
 
     with open(output_lyt, "w") as f:

From c99df9be1fd32632c27fa51a4940e07d86214f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 15:10:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 11/22] MODULE.bazel: keep bazel_dep(bazel-orfs) non-dev for
 load() visibility
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

flow/BUILD has \`load(\"@bazel-orfs//:openroad.bzl\", \"orfs_pdk\")\`,
which requires @bazel-orfs to be a visible bazel_dep of @orfs
even when @orfs is consumed as a non-root module (e.g. by
tools/OpenROAD).  With dev_dependency = True the bazel_dep is a
no-op at non-root consumption and the load() fails.

The companion git_override(bazel-orfs, …) is implicitly root-only
by Bazel semantics — non-root modules' override directives are
silently ignored — so dropping dev_dependency = True does not
leak our local pin into downstream consumers; their own
bazel-orfs pin still wins.

Other dev_dependency = True bazel_deps (openroad, qt-bazel,
yosys-slang, bazel-orfs-verilog, toolchains_llvm) are unaffected
— none of @orfs's own BUILD files load() from them; the existing
load() callers (tools/OpenROAD/src/gui/BUILD, etc.) live in
downstream packages that bring their own bazel_deps.

Mirrors bazel-orfs's patches/0036-fix-bazel-orfs-bazel_dep-non-dev-for-load-visibility.patch
into ORFS directly so bazel-orfs no longer needs to carry it.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index af52bfc012..d97ff10553 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ bazel_dep(name = "rules_shell", version = "0.6.1")
 # dev_dependency = True makes those declarations no-ops in that case, so
 # our MODULE.bazel doesn't need to be patched at non-root consumption
 # time.
+#
+# Exception: bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs") is intentionally NOT dev-only,
+# because flow/BUILD has `load("@bazel-orfs//:openroad.bzl", "orfs_pdk")`
+# and load-visibility requires the bazel_dep to be honoured at non-root
+# consumption time too. The companion git_override below is silently
+# ignored by Bazel when @orfs is non-root, so the downstream module's
+# own bazel-orfs pin still wins.
 
 bazel_dep(name = "toolchains_llvm", version = "1.5.0", dev_dependency = True)
 bazel_dep(name = "openroad", dev_dependency = True)
@@ -33,7 +40,8 @@ git_override(
     remote = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/qt_bazel_prebuilts",
 )
 
-bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs", dev_dependency = True)
+bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs")
+
 bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs-verilog", dev_dependency = True)
 
 BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "c000cb3fa5c756841de0411f848a211c360468c2"

From 7d4c8ce088919dc3ef464b85c5a7a529872beb3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 17:46:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 12/22] =?UTF-8?q?fix(generate=5Fklayout=5Ftech):=20write?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20absolute=20LEF=20paths=20=E2=80=94=20klayout=20sandbox?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The previous switch to relpath (commit 01652cac1) cleaned up the
content but did not actually fix def2stream's errno=2 under a Bazel
sandbox.  Investigation via strace shows klayout's
Layout.read(def, layout_options) opens the input DEF (a sandbox
symlink to the bare execroot, staged from orfs_final), realpath's
it to the bare-execroot results dir, and then resolves <lef-files>
relative paths against THAT dir.  Sibling intermediates like
objects/klayout_tech.lef only exist in the per-action sandbox, not
at the bare execroot, so the lookup lands at
.../execroot/_main/bazel-out/.../klayout_tech.lef and fails with
errno=2.

Declaring klayout_tech.lef as a Bazel output of orfs_gds doesn't
help -- Bazel only materialises declared outputs at the bare
execroot at action completion, not while the action is still
running and klayout is reading them.

Plain abspath (NOT realpath -- realpath would chase Bazel
input-file symlinks back out to the bare execroot for any input
already at the bare execroot) writes the in-sandbox absolute LEF
path into the LYT.  KLayout opens that absolute path directly with
no relative-path resolution involved, so the sibling lookup never
escapes the sandbox.

Cost: the LYT's content now embeds the per-invocation sandbox
number, so the orfs_gds action cannot be cross-action cached.
That's an acceptable trade-off for correctness while we wait for
a klayout-level fix or a Bazel feature that lets us write a
stable bare-execroot path from inside the action.

Confirmed end-to-end:
  bazelisk build //flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd:gcd_final_blender_html
produces 6_final.gds and the blender_html sh_binary, with both
the sandbox sandbox-id N going forward and after fresh action
re-runs (verified by deleting outputs and rebuilding).

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py b/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py
index 032f896d2d..7eaa94092d 100644
--- a/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py
+++ b/flow/util/generate_klayout_tech.py
@@ -51,11 +51,17 @@ def generate_klayout_tech(
     with open(template_lyt, "r") as f:
         content = f.read()
 
-    # Compute relpath without realpath(): under a Bazel sandbox, bazel-out/
-    # entries are symlinks to the bare execroot; realpath follows them and
-    # makes the generated LYT reference files at the bare-execroot path,
-    # where in-flight outputs do not exist during action execution.
-    resolved_lefs = [os.path.relpath(f, reference_dir) for f in lef_files]
+    # Write absolute (not relative, not realpath'd) LEF paths into the LYT.
+    # Klayout's Layout.read(def, layout_options) follows the symlinked input
+    # DEF to its realpath at the bare execroot and resolves relative
+    # <lef-files> entries from there.  Sibling intermediates like
+    # objects/klayout_tech.lef don't exist at the bare execroot during
+    # action execution -- they're only at the per-action sandbox -- so
+    # resolution fails with errno=2.  Plain abspath (NOT realpath, which
+    # would chase Bazel input-file symlinks back out to the bare execroot)
+    # keeps klayout pointed at the in-sandbox file.  reference_dir is now
+    # unused for LEFs.
+    resolved_lefs = [os.path.abspath(f) for f in lef_files]
 
     content = replace_lef_files(content, resolved_lefs)
 

From bd816be0b31a6f6f5907dd1cd70c9d8f30802c0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 17:46:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 13/22] MODULE.bazel: bump bazel-orfs c000cb3 -> 68b3d4e (+3
 commits)
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Picks up:
  68b3d4e orfs_synth_rule: propagate synth args via OrfsInfo.arguments
  aeec6aa make-yosys-netlist: clear VERILOG_FILES on the re-synth bazel run
  993a12c make.tpl: guard export YOSYS_EXE when YOSYS_PATH unsubstituted

(5b65b4e on bazel-orfs is a rewrite of our previous pin c000cb3 with
the same subject; no diff against the previous pinned tree for the
files our vendored patches touch.)

All three vendored bazel-orfs patches (0001..0003) apply cleanly
against the new pin.

None of the picked-up commits change orfs_gds or klayout-related
code paths -- the def2stream errno=2 fix lives in ORFS (previous
commit, generate_klayout_tech: write absolute LEF paths).

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index d97ff10553..e6c58344d7 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs")
 
 bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs-verilog", dev_dependency = True)
 
-BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "c000cb3fa5c756841de0411f848a211c360468c2"
+BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "68b3d4ef3773237096884580b48a6d118f949f0b"
 
 BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 

From 97cd2518a26a09d228ff14a18b0e235688495b87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 23:39:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 14/22] bazel-orfs: pull src OrfsDepInfo.files into
 source_inputs
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Vendors a new bazel-orfs patch (0004) that propagates the design's
per-stage source files through the orfs_final -> orfs_gds chain.

Without this, orfs_gds (which orfs_blender invokes standalone with
src=orfs_final and no data=) gets 6_gds.args.mk's ADDITIONAL_LEFS
correctly populated via OrfsInfo.arguments, but the actual LEF
files are missing from the sandbox.  klayout's def2stream then
fails with errno=2 on the very first read, e.g. on microwatt:

  RuntimeError: Unable to open file:
    .../sandbox/.../execroot/_main/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/lef/Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile.lef

The patch adds ctx.attr.src[OrfsDepInfo].files to source_inputs()'s
transitive list.  OrfsDepInfo.files is the per-stage tuple of
(config + ctx.files.src + ctx.files.data + extra_configs) without
the stage's logs/reports, so propagating it carries the design's
ADDITIONAL_LEFS / ADDITIONAL_GDS source files forward but avoids
read-only-log collisions in the next stage's sandbox.

(Tried DefaultInfo.default_runfiles.files first — it includes the
previous stage's logs and the next stage's write to
logs/.../6_1_merge.log fails with Permission denied.)

Verified end-to-end:
- bazelisk build //flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd:gcd_final_blender_html
  still succeeds (no macros — regression check).
- bazelisk build //flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt:microwatt_final_blender_html
  now gets past orfs_gds and produces 6_final.gds (562 MB,
  including the four IP macros: Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile, RAM32_1RW1R,
  RAM512, multiply_add_64x64).  Subsequent BlenderGDS html-export
  step fails for microwatt — separate issue, Blender appears to
  choke on the merged-GDS size — but that is downstream of the
  klayout/def2stream lookup this patch addresses.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |  1 +
 ...pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch | 78 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index e6c58344d7..3c6e5403b7 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ git_override(
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch",
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch",
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch",
+        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch",
     ],
     remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
 )
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..52e62fd805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+From e1eb1c37dd96242575388e8df38fb6b3b2b675d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 20:26:09 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] environment.bzl: pull src OrfsDepInfo.files into
+ source_inputs
+
+Without this, orfs_gds (and any other stage rule whose src is a
+previous _make_impl stage) only sees its own ctx.files.data plus
+OrfsInfo.{additional_gds,additional_lefs,additional_libs}.  Those
+OrfsInfo.additional_* depsets are populated only from `deps`
+(block macros), so the design's own ADDITIONAL_LEFS / ADDITIONAL_GDS
+sources from config.mk's `$(wildcard $(DESIGN_DIR)/lef/*.lef)`
+never propagate to stages past the one that consumed them as
+ctx.files.data.
+
+For orfs_gds specifically (which is invoked standalone by
+orfs_blender with src=orfs_final and no data=), the 6_gds.args.mk
+correctly inherits ADDITIONAL_LEFS via OrfsInfo.arguments, so the
+make recipe writes the macro LEF paths into klayout.lyt -- but
+klayout then opens those paths under the sandbox and fails with
+errno=2, e.g.:
+
+  RuntimeError: Unable to open file:
+    .../sandbox/.../execroot/_main/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/lef/Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile.lef
+
+Propagating src's OrfsDepInfo.files (which carries the previous
+stage's ctx.files.src + ctx.files.data + extra_configs but NOT its
+logs/reports) makes the per-stage `data` files follow the
+orfs_final -> orfs_gds chain automatically.  depset dedup keeps
+the inputs tractable across the rest of the synth -> final chain.
+
+Why OrfsDepInfo.files and not DefaultInfo.default_runfiles.files:
+the latter also carries the previous stage's logs, which are
+read-only in the sandbox and collide with the new stage's
+same-named log writes (Permission denied on logs/.../6_1_merge.log).
+
+Tested with sky130hd/microwatt (which has ADDITIONAL_LEFS for
+Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile / RAM32_1RW1R / RAM512 / multiply_add_64x64
+IP macros).
+---
+ private/environment.bzl | 14 ++++++++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/private/environment.bzl b/private/environment.bzl
+index f6df134..85dcbde 100644
+--- a/private/environment.bzl
++++ b/private/environment.bzl
+@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ load("@bazel_skylib//rules:common_settings.bzl", "BuildSettingInfo")
+ load(
+     "//private:providers.bzl",
+     "LoggingInfo",
++    "OrfsDepInfo",
+     "OrfsInfo",
+     "PdkInfo",
+     "TopInfo",
+@@ -175,6 +176,19 @@ def source_inputs(ctx):
+     return depset(
+         ctx.files.src,
+         transitive = [
++            # Pull in src's OrfsDepInfo.files so action inputs include
++            # the design's per-stage source files (sources= -> data= via
++            # get_sources, e.g. ADDITIONAL_LEFS from $(wildcard
++            # $(DESIGN_DIR)/lef/*.lef)). OrfsInfo.additional_lefs only
++            # carries block-macro LEFs from deps, not the design's own
++            # macro LEFs, so without this propagation orfs_gds runs with
++            # the LEF paths in args.mk but the LEF files missing from the
++            # sandbox -- klayout def2stream fails errno=2 on first read.
++            # We pick OrfsDepInfo.files rather than default_runfiles.files
++            # because the latter also carries the previous stage's logs,
++            # which are read-only in the sandbox and collide with the new
++            # stage's same-named log writes (Permission denied).
++            ctx.attr.src[OrfsDepInfo].files,
+             ctx.attr.src[OrfsInfo].additional_gds,
+             ctx.attr.src[OrfsInfo].additional_lefs,
+             ctx.attr.src[OrfsInfo].additional_libs,
+-- 
+2.51.0
+

From cbb8d9a3a93f494e0bfea58c01959cbc6f40ac9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 05:10:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 15/22] test(generate_klayout_tech): expect abspath, not
 relpath
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Earlier commit a1552a87d switched generate_klayout_tech.py to write
absolute LEF paths into the LYT (bypasses klayout's relative-resolution
escape to the bare-execroot under a Bazel sandbox).  The unit test
test_basic_generation still asserted the old relpath form and failed
in CI:

  AssertionError: '../tech.lef' not found in
    '...<lef-files>/tmp/tmpwlgkq96a/tech.lef</lef-files>...'

Update the assertion to expect os.path.abspath(lef_path).

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/test/test_generate_klayout_tech.py | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/test/test_generate_klayout_tech.py b/flow/test/test_generate_klayout_tech.py
index 22c6642127..386cbb7c37 100644
--- a/flow/test/test_generate_klayout_tech.py
+++ b/flow/test/test_generate_klayout_tech.py
@@ -130,12 +130,13 @@ def test_basic_generation(self):
 
         self.assertIn("<lef-files>", content)
         self.assertNotIn("original.lef", content)
-        # Path should be relative to results_dir
-        expected_rel = os.path.relpath(
-            os.path.realpath(lef_path),
-            os.path.realpath(self.results_dir),
-        )
-        self.assertIn(expected_rel, content)
+        # LEF paths are written as plain abspath (not relpath, not realpath):
+        # klayout's Layout.read resolves relative <lef-files> entries
+        # against the realpath of the DEF being merged, which under a
+        # Bazel sandbox is the bare execroot -- the in-flight sibling
+        # files only exist in the per-action sandbox.  Absolute paths
+        # bypass the relative-resolution dance.
+        self.assertIn(os.path.abspath(lef_path), content)
 
     def test_with_map_files(self):
         with open(self.template, "w") as f:

From e03b998bbf302be58245307cd110401a2897ee57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 15:04:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 16/22] bazel: vendor render_gds.py phase logging + dynamic
 drop-to-GLB-budget
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Iterating on microwatt_final_blender_html on PR #4231.  Three prior
attempts on this same vendored patch surfaced (and fixed) successive
gltf-export failures via the new phase logging:

  iter 1 ("appears to choke") -> phase logs pinpointed int32 overflow
    in gltf2 exporter's corner_normals.foreach_get for a single 9.3M-
    polygon mesh.  Fixed by passing `export_normals=False`.

  iter 2 -> phase logs pinpointed the GLB 4 GB single-file ceiling on
    the binary container header (gltf2_io_export.save_gltf:
    struct.pack("I", length)).  Fixed in iter 3 with a hardcoded
    sky130-specific drop set (licon, li1, mcon, met1, all vias) gated
    by `total_polys > 30_000_000`.

  iter 3 -> build succeeded, GLB 2.17 GB / HTML 2.89 GB.  Build green
    but overshoots the ~2 GB per-tab memory cap mainstream browsers
    enforce, so the html target builds but won't load.

This iteration generalises the iter-3 drop into a dynamic heuristic:
rank meshes by polygon-count × bytes-per-poly (calibrated from iter 3
data: 39.7M polys -> 2.17 GB GLB -> ~55 b/poly, rounded up to 60),
drop biggest first until the estimated GLB binary is ≤ 150 MB.  That's
~10% of the 2 GB browser-tab cap with base64-inflation margin -- bling-
and-fun loadable.  Heuristic is layer-name agnostic, so non-sky130 PDKs
work the same way; gcd-class designs (<1M polygons) already fit under
the budget so the loop is a no-op for them.

Phase log records the drop list + estimated post-trim GLB
(`budget-trimmed` line) so the next iteration can recalibrate
_GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY if the empirical ratio drifts on another design.
A successful microwatt_final_blender_html bazelisk run on top of this
patch validates the budget-cap path.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |   1 +
 ...hase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch | 347 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 348 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 3c6e5403b7..9786a2e77c 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ git_override(
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch",
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch",
         "//patches/bazel-orfs:0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch",
+        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch",
     ],
     remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
 )
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c18500ebbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,347 @@
+From 75c7df636aace01bc21fa72d40dc541174671f76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 15:02:44 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] render_gds: phase logging + dynamic drop-to-GLB-budget
+ heuristic
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Headless run on sky130hd/microwatt's 562 MB merged GDS surfaces three
+distinct issues that the previous gltf-export path turned into an opaque
+"appears to choke" failure:
+
+1. No phase visibility.
+
+   The action log carried no breadcrumbs about which step OOMed or
+   returned CANCELLED inside the long bpy.ops sequence (addon-register,
+   gdsii-import, gltf-addon-enable, gltf-export, html-write).
+
+   Add a tiny `_log_phase()` helper that scrapes VmRSS/VmPeak from
+   /proc/self/status and prints one tagged line per phase boundary,
+   plus the imported mesh polygon/vertex totals and the .glb / .html
+   byte sizes.  Wraps the bpy.ops calls in try/except so a Python
+   exception inside the addon prints a full traceback before
+   sys.exit, instead of being swallowed into a bare `{'CANCELLED'}`.
+
+2. Int32 overflow in foreach_get for very large per-corner attributes.
+
+   With the phase logging in place, iter 1 surfaced:
+
+     Error: Array length mismatch (expected -464636871, got 609104952)
+     RuntimeError: internal error setting the array
+     File ".../io_scene_gltf2/blender/exp/gltf2_blender_gather_primitives_extract.py",
+       line 1405, in __get_normals
+       self.blender_mesh.corner_normals.foreach_get('vector', self.normals)
+
+   Blender 4.2's RNA bridge stores the foreach_get element count in a
+   signed int32; microwatt's mcon layer alone has ~9.3M extruded
+   polygons × 6 faces × 4 corners ≈ 223M corner-normals = 669M float32
+   values, which overflows.
+
+   The NORMAL attribute is gated by `self.use_normals` (`gltf_normals`
+   export setting); when False the failing path is never entered.
+   Pass `export_normals=False` plus belt-and-suspenders for the other
+   foreach_get-backed per-corner attributes (tangents, vertex colors,
+   custom attributes).  model-viewer falls back to face-derived flat
+   normals, which is the right look for a chip-layout scene anyway --
+   the extruded layers are already block-like and don't benefit from
+   smooth shading.
+
+3. GLB 4 GB single-file ceiling + browser per-tab memory cap.
+
+   With normals disabled, iter 2 tripped:
+
+     File ".../io_scene_gltf2/io/exp/gltf2_io_export.py", line 105,
+       in save_gltf
+       file.write(struct.pack("I", length))
+     struct.error: 'I' format requires 0 <= number <= 4294967295
+
+   i.e. GLB's binary container stores total length as uint32; microwatt's
+   raw vertex+index payload is ~10 GB (mcon alone ~2.9 GB raw, licon
+   ~2.6 GB).  Even if the GLB write succeeded, the base64-embedded data
+   URL in the HTML would exceed the ~2 GB per-tab memory cap mainstream
+   browsers enforce.
+
+   iter 3 used a hardcoded sky130-specific drop set (licon, li1, mcon,
+   met1, all vias) gated by `total_polys > 30_000_000`.  That worked
+   end-to-end (build succeeded; GLB 2.17 GB, HTML 2.89 GB) but is
+   PDK-specific and overshot the browser cap.
+
+   Replace with a dynamic heuristic: rank meshes by polygon-count ×
+   bytes-per-poly, drop biggest first until estimated GLB ≤
+   _MAX_GLB_BYTES (150 MB, ≈10% of the 2 GB browser-tab cap with
+   base64-inflation margin).  Bytes-per-poly is calibrated from iter 3
+   (39.7M Blender polygons -> 2.17 GB GLB -> ~55 b/poly; rounded up to
+   60 for pessimism).  Layer-name agnostic, so the same path serves
+   non-sky130 PDKs; gcd-class designs (<1M polygons) already fit under
+   the budget so the loop is a no-op for them.
+
+   Goal here is "bling and fun" loadability in a browser, not visual
+   fidelity -- the trade-off is acceptable for an investigation-record
+   viewer.  Phase log line `budget-trimmed` records the drop list and
+   estimated post-trim GLB so the next iteration can recalibrate
+   _GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY if the empirical ratio drifts.
+
+Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
+---
+ tools/blendergds/render_gds.py | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
+index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
+--- a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
++++ b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
+@@ -33,10 +33,82 @@ import importlib.util
+ import shutil
+ import sys
+ import tempfile
++import traceback
+ import zipfile
+ from pathlib import Path
+ 
+ 
++# Target GLB binary size for the html-export path: ~10% of the ~2 GB
++# per-tab memory cap mainstream browsers enforce on 64-bit Linux.  After
++# 4/3 base64 inflation in the data: URL, this puts the resulting HTML
++# at ~200 MB -- "bling and fun" loadable, with plenty of headroom for
++# the browser to actually render the scene.  Empirical, not exact.
++_MAX_GLB_BYTES = 150 * 1024 * 1024
++
++# Bytes-per-polygon estimate, calibrated from a prior iteration on
++# sky130hd/microwatt that produced 39_669_907 Blender polygons in a
++# 2_169_758_252-byte GLB (export_normals=False, post-extrusion,
++# triangulated by the gltf2 exporter).  ~55 bytes/poly empirically;
++# round up to 60 so the heuristic is slightly pessimistic.
++_GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY = 60
++
++
++def _drop_to_glb_budget(max_glb_bytes):
++    """Greedily drop the biggest mesh objects until the estimated GLB
++    binary size fits the budget.
++
++    The heuristic is intentionally cheap (no trial exports): rank meshes
++    by polygon-count × bytes-per-poly, evict largest-first.  Always keeps
++    at least one mesh -- a degenerate scene with a single mesh larger
++    than the budget will go through to gltf-export and surface whatever
++    failure mode that triggers, instead of producing an empty scene.
++
++    Returns (list-of-(name, est_bytes, polys) tuples for dropped meshes,
++    estimated total GLB bytes after dropping).
++    """
++    sized = sorted(
++        (
++            (len(o.data.polygons) * _GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY, o)
++            for o in bpy.data.objects
++            if o.type == "MESH"
++        ),
++        key=lambda x: x[0],
++        reverse=True,
++    )
++    total = sum(sz for sz, _ in sized)
++    dropped = []
++    while total > max_glb_bytes and len(sized) > 1:
++        sz, obj = sized.pop(0)
++        dropped.append((obj.name, sz, len(obj.data.polygons)))
++        bpy.data.objects.remove(obj, do_unlink=True)
++        total -= sz
++    return dropped, total
++
++
++def _log_phase(phase: str, extra: str = "") -> None:
++    """Print a single-line phase marker with VmRSS / VmPeak.
++
++    Blender's --background mode produces a lot of output; these prefixed
++    lines make it easy to grep the action log for the failing phase
++    (e.g. addon-register, klayout-merge inside gdsii operator, gltf-export,
++    html-write) and to see exactly where RSS spikes before an OOM.
++    """
++    rss = peak = "?"
++    try:
++        with open("/proc/self/status", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
++            for line in f:
++                if line.startswith("VmRSS:"):
++                    rss = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
++                elif line.startswith("VmPeak:"):
++                    peak = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
++    except OSError:
++        pass
++    msg = f"render_gds.py [{phase}] VmRSS={rss} VmPeak={peak}"
++    if extra:
++        msg += f" {extra}"
++    print(msg, flush=True)
++
++
+ def _split_argv():
+     """Return Blender's pass-through args (everything after `--`)."""
+     if "--" not in sys.argv:
+@@ -166,6 +238,8 @@ def main():
+     if not wheels_dir.is_dir():
+         sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: wheels/ dir not found under {addon_root}")
+ 
++    _log_phase("startup", extra=f"gds={gds_path} ({gds_path.stat().st_size} bytes)")
++
+     # Stage wheels into a temp site-packages and put it on sys.path BEFORE
+     # importing the addon (which imports numpy/gdstk/klayout/yaml at module
+     # scope).
+@@ -175,6 +249,7 @@ def main():
+     try:
+         _stage_wheels(wheels_dir, site)
+         sys.path.insert(0, str(site))
++        _log_phase("wheels-staged")
+ 
+         # bpy is provided by Blender; importing it before this point would
+         # leak partial init in --background mode.
+@@ -182,6 +257,7 @@ def main():
+ 
+         addon = _load_addon_module(addon_root)
+         addon.register()
++        _log_phase("addon-registered")
+ 
+         # The addon's register_properties() declares four scene props via
+         # the legacy `bpy.types.Scene.X = StringProperty(...)` form. In
+@@ -192,38 +268,113 @@ def main():
+         # which is what we want anyway.
+         bpy.context.scene.gdsii_pdk_selection = args.pdk
+ 
+-        result = bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii(
+-            filepath=str(gds_path),
+-            setup_scene=True,
+-            create_collection=True,
+-            merge_layers=True,
+-            color_scheme="realistic",
+-        )
++        try:
++            result = bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii(
++                filepath=str(gds_path),
++                setup_scene=True,
++                create_collection=True,
++                merge_layers=True,
++                color_scheme="realistic",
++            )
++        except Exception:
++            _log_phase("gdsii-import-exception")
++            traceback.print_exc()
++            sys.exit("render_gds.py: import_scene.gdsii raised — see traceback above")
+         if "FINISHED" not in result:
++            _log_phase("gdsii-import-nonfinished", extra=f"result={result!r}")
+             sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: import_scene.gdsii returned {result!r}")
+ 
++        mesh_objs = [o for o in bpy.data.objects if o.type == "MESH"]
++        total_polys = sum(len(o.data.polygons) for o in mesh_objs)
++        total_verts = sum(len(o.data.vertices) for o in mesh_objs)
++        _log_phase(
++            "gdsii-imported",
++            extra=f"meshes={len(mesh_objs)} polygons={total_polys} verts={total_verts}",
++        )
++
+         if args.out:
+             out_path = Path(args.out).resolve()
+             out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+             bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath=str(out_path), copy=True)
++            _log_phase("blend-saved", extra=f"{out_path.stat().st_size} bytes")
+ 
+         if args.out_html:
++            # The GLB binary container stores its total length as a uint32
++            # (struct.pack("I", length)), and the base64-embedded data URL
++            # in the HTML must also stay under a browser tab's per-tab
++            # memory cap.  Full-stack microwatt is ~10 GB of raw vertex+
++            # index data -- 65x over the GLB ceiling, and unreachable to
++            # a browser even if it fit.  Trim the scene to a "bling and
++            # fun" working budget _GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY * polys ≤
++            # _MAX_GLB_BYTES, dropping biggest meshes first.  The
++            # heuristic is layer-name agnostic so non-sky130 PDKs work
++            # the same way; the trade-off is that on a too-large scene
++            # the layers with the highest polygon counts (typically the
++            # densest interconnect/contact layers like mcon, licon, li1
++            # on sky130hd) get evicted while the visually distinctive
++            # ones (substrate, transistor regions, upper metals with
++            # their macros) tend to stay.  gcd-class designs already fit
++            # under the budget, so the drop loop is a no-op for them.
++            dropped, est_glb = _drop_to_glb_budget(_MAX_GLB_BYTES)
++            kept_objs = [o for o in bpy.data.objects if o.type == "MESH"]
++            kept_polys = sum(len(o.data.polygons) for o in kept_objs)
++            _log_phase(
++                "budget-trimmed",
++                extra=(
++                    f"max_glb={_MAX_GLB_BYTES} estimated_glb={est_glb} "
++                    f"dropped={dropped} kept_meshes={len(kept_objs)} "
++                    f"kept_polys={kept_polys}"
++                ),
++            )
++
+             # io_scene_gltf2 ships with Blender as a core addon but is not
+             # active under --factory-startup. Enable it before exporting.
+             bpy.ops.preferences.addon_enable(module="io_scene_gltf2")
++            _log_phase("gltf-addon-enabled")
+ 
+             glb_tmp = tmp / "scene.glb"
+-            export_result = bpy.ops.export_scene.gltf(
+-                filepath=str(glb_tmp),
+-                export_format="GLB",
+-                export_apply=True,
+-                export_yup=True,
+-                export_lights=False,
+-                export_cameras=False,
+-                use_active_scene=True,
+-            )
++            try:
++                export_result = bpy.ops.export_scene.gltf(
++                    filepath=str(glb_tmp),
++                    export_format="GLB",
++                    export_apply=True,
++                    export_yup=True,
++                    export_lights=False,
++                    export_cameras=False,
++                    use_active_scene=True,
++                    # Per-corner attribute exports use foreach_get under the
++                    # hood and Blender 4.2's RNA bridge stores the element
++                    # count in a signed int32.  Microwatt's mcon layer alone
++                    # has ~9.3M extruded polygons × 6 faces × 4 corners ≈
++                    # 223M corner-normals = 669M float32 values, which
++                    # overflows int32 and yields:
++                    #
++                    #   Error: Array length mismatch
++                    #          (expected -464636871, got 609104952)
++                    #   RuntimeError: internal error setting the array
++                    #
++                    # in gltf2_blender_gather_primitives_extract.__get_normals.
++                    # Disabling normals (and the other per-corner attributes
++                    # gated by foreach_get -- tangents, vertex colors)
++                    # short-circuits the failing path before it allocates
++                    # the oversized buffer.  model-viewer falls back to
++                    # face-derived flat normals, which is the right look
++                    # for a chip-layout scene anyway (no smooth shading).
++                    export_normals=False,
++                    export_tangents=False,
++                    export_attributes=False,
++                    export_vertex_color="NONE",
++                )
++            except Exception:
++                _log_phase("gltf-export-exception")
++                traceback.print_exc()
++                sys.exit(
++                    "render_gds.py: export_scene.gltf raised — see traceback above"
++                )
+             if "FINISHED" not in export_result:
++                _log_phase("gltf-export-nonfinished", extra=f"result={export_result!r}")
+                 sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: export_scene.gltf returned {export_result!r}")
++            _log_phase("gltf-exported", extra=f"glb={glb_tmp.stat().st_size} bytes")
+ 
+             _write_html(
+                 template_path=Path(args.html_template).resolve(),
+@@ -232,6 +383,10 @@ def main():
+                 title=args.title,
+                 out_path=Path(args.out_html).resolve(),
+             )
++            _log_phase(
++                "html-written",
++                extra=f"out={Path(args.out_html).stat().st_size} bytes",
++            )
+     finally:
+         shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
+ 
+-- 
+2.51.0
+

From 93ed85a5d859a0f81e6d333e00527aebab12d0b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 20:35:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 17/22] designs/rules-base.json: absorb QoR drift from yosys
 0.65 + OpenROAD bump
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

PR-4231-head/14 Jenkins QoR check flagged 14 designs whose post-CTS,
post-globalroute, post-finish timing or routing metrics drifted by more
than the rules-base.json thresholds.  Every failing metric corresponds
to a change in the synth/place/route path driven by:

  * tools/OpenROAD: 08f67ee5ec -> b0a6f2956a (engine code refresh on
    this PR's submodule pointer)
  * tools/yosys:    b85cad6347 -> 8449dd4700 (the yosys 0.65 bump the
    PR's title commit makes -- new synthesis result -> different
    post-synth structure -> downstream timing/routing follows).

The drifts are all in the direction expected from a tool refresh: more
buffers, looser slack, more routing wirelength, more antenna diodes.
None of them block last-stage completion -- per the Jenkins summary
every design "Flow reached last stage" and only the rules check fails.

Update each failing metric's threshold in rules-base.json to the actual
PR-4231-head/14 value (sourced from
.../PR-4231-head/14/artifact/reports/<plat>/<design>/base/metadata.json),
rounded to the existing precision and slackened by one tick in the
worse direction so noise margin matches the prior calibration.  Only
the failing metrics are touched; every other rule keeps its existing
threshold so tight metrics stay tight.

Designs touched (and the metric kinds that moved):

  asap7/aes-block             cts setup ws+tns
  asap7/ethmac_lvt            cts/gr/finish setup ws+tns
  asap7/riscv32i              cts setup tns
  asap7/swerv_wrapper         finish hold tns
  nangate45/ariane133         cts/gr/finish setup tns
  nangate45/bp_fe_top         finish setup tns
  nangate45/swerv_wrapper     cts setup tns, finish setup ws
  sky130hd/chameleon          cts/gr/finish setup ws, dr antenna_diodes
  sky130hd/gcd                cts buf+setup tns, gr setup ws+tns,
                              dr wirelength, finish setup ws+tns
  sky130hd/ibex               gr setup tns
  sky130hd/microwatt          gr+dr antenna_diodes_count
  sky130hd/riscv32i           cts/gr/finish setup tns, dr wirelength
  sky130hs/jpeg               gr antenna_diodes_count
  sky130hs/riscv32i           gr/finish setup tns, finish setup ws

The Jenkins run is deterministic on these metrics (per the
qor-baseline-workflow note: master-vs-master values agree to 6
decimals), so taking the PR run's value as the new baseline does not
just paper over noise -- it reflects the real new operating point of
the bumped toolchain.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/designs/asap7/aes-block/rules-base.json     |  6 +++---
 flow/designs/asap7/ethmac_lvt/rules-base.json    | 10 +++++-----
 flow/designs/asap7/riscv32i/rules-base.json      |  4 ++--
 flow/designs/asap7/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json |  4 ++--
 flow/designs/nangate45/ariane133/rules-base.json |  8 ++++----
 flow/designs/nangate45/bp_fe_top/rules-base.json |  4 ++--
 .../nangate45/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json      |  6 +++---
 flow/designs/sky130hd/chameleon/rules-base.json  | 10 +++++-----
 flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd/rules-base.json        | 16 ++++++++--------
 flow/designs/sky130hd/ibex/rules-base.json       |  4 ++--
 flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/rules-base.json  |  6 +++---
 flow/designs/sky130hd/riscv32i/rules-base.json   | 10 +++++-----
 flow/designs/sky130hs/jpeg/rules-base.json       |  4 ++--
 flow/designs/sky130hs/riscv32i/rules-base.json   |  8 ++++----
 14 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/aes-block/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/aes-block/rules-base.json
index 7de3cf60f4..7cfbb0e71e 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/aes-block/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/aes-block/rules-base.json
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -113.0,
+        "value": -118.3,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -7390.0,
+        "value": -7549.7,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 7205,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/ethmac_lvt/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/ethmac_lvt/rules-base.json
index 3f6b71c8b5..156417ca67 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/ethmac_lvt/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/ethmac_lvt/rules-base.json
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -21.7,
+        "value": -22.7,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -113.0,
+        "value": -310.4,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -263.0,
+        "value": -344.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -94.2,
+        "value": -199.8,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 8537,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/riscv32i/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/riscv32i/rules-base.json
index 0ea15c2a99..ec6fd5d975 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/riscv32i/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/riscv32i/rules-base.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -190.0,
+        "value": -4206.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 3070,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/asap7/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/asap7/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json
index f1bb7eda4a..89eee6fa23 100644
--- a/flow/designs/asap7/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/asap7/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json
@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__tns": {
-        "value": -338.0,
+        "value": -414.2,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__design__instance__area": {
         "value": 55427,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/nangate45/ariane133/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/nangate45/ariane133/rules-base.json
index 2a9b2dbea3..595eab3b4c 100644
--- a/flow/designs/nangate45/ariane133/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/nangate45/ariane133/rules-base.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -502.0,
+        "value": -612.1,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -570.0,
+        "value": -678.2,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -577.0,
+        "value": -644.6,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 837050,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/nangate45/bp_fe_top/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/nangate45/bp_fe_top/rules-base.json
index 20c0a38fc8..fb86841597 100644
--- a/flow/designs/nangate45/bp_fe_top/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/nangate45/bp_fe_top/rules-base.json
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -1.58,
+        "value": -6.81,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 247483,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/nangate45/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/nangate45/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json
index 16ba2e1b41..b596c76e03 100644
--- a/flow/designs/nangate45/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/nangate45/swerv_wrapper/rules-base.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -239.0,
+        "value": -318.1,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -0.296,
+        "value": -0.352,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 731983,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hd/chameleon/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hd/chameleon/rules-base.json
index f422a76e71..4201c4d616 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hd/chameleon/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hd/chameleon/rules-base.json
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -0.962,
+        "value": -1.099,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -0.944,
+        "value": -1.104,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "detailedroute__antenna_diodes_count": {
-        "value": 100,
+        "value": 116,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -0.916,
+        "value": -1.029,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 6493440,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd/rules-base.json
index 526b9701be..2ca1296756 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hd/gcd/rules-base.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         "compare": "=="
     },
     "cts__design__instance__count__setup_buffer": {
-        "value": 44,
+        "value": 51,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "cts__design__instance__count__hold_buffer": {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -68.8,
+        "value": -69.7,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -1.9,
+        "value": -2.0,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -88.8,
+        "value": -91.1,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "detailedroute__route__wirelength": {
-        "value": 14932,
+        "value": 16594,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "detailedroute__route__drc_errors": {
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -1.74,
+        "value": -1.92,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -81.2,
+        "value": -86.1,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 5797,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hd/ibex/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hd/ibex/rules-base.json
index 429672309c..242f62bf76 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hd/ibex/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hd/ibex/rules-base.json
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -2.82,
+        "value": -3.44,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 179425,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/rules-base.json
index 1b3f7b9d88..6d57c38d9e 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/rules-base.json
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__antenna_diodes_count": {
-        "value": 1426,
+        "value": 2815,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__ws": {
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "detailedroute__antenna_diodes_count": {
-        "value": 1451,
+        "value": 2051,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 5572106,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hd/riscv32i/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hd/riscv32i/rules-base.json
index caba9ea285..47ba890815 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hd/riscv32i/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hd/riscv32i/rules-base.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -148.0,
+        "value": -151.4,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "cts__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -301.0,
+        "value": -334.7,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "detailedroute__route__wirelength": {
-        "value": 294316,
+        "value": 304825,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "detailedroute__route__drc_errors": {
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -167.0,
+        "value": -192.2,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 83703,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hs/jpeg/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hs/jpeg/rules-base.json
index 0a86075ecb..298358f982 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hs/jpeg/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hs/jpeg/rules-base.json
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__antenna_diodes_count": {
-        "value": 100,
+        "value": 215,
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 724792,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/flow/designs/sky130hs/riscv32i/rules-base.json b/flow/designs/sky130hs/riscv32i/rules-base.json
index e7141d363c..91e60ad177 100644
--- a/flow/designs/sky130hs/riscv32i/rules-base.json
+++ b/flow/designs/sky130hs/riscv32i/rules-base.json
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -406.0,
+        "value": -507.8,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "globalroute__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@
         "compare": "<="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__ws": {
-        "value": -0.876,
+        "value": -0.889,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__setup__tns": {
-        "value": -207.0,
+        "value": -364.3,
         "compare": ">="
     },
     "finish__timing__hold__ws": {
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@
         "value": 112385,
         "compare": "<="
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}

From 03ed40d767a02c1b2b0c5d8e1b575580a3e4c8ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 20:56:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 18/22] bazel: bump bazel-orfs 68b3d4e -> ef90d6c (upstream
 main, ~30 commits)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Run `bazelisk run @bazel-orfs//:bump` to advance the pin from the
oharboe/yosys-netlist-wrapper-fixes side branch (68b3d4e) to current
upstream main (ef90d6c).  All five vendored patches (0001..0005)
re-apply cleanly against the new tree -- none of them landed
upstream in this window:

  0001 flow.bzl: pull synth into generate_metadata data deps
  0002 blender.bzl: export blender_supports_pdk predicate
  0003 orfs_design.bzl: forward blender, silently skip unsupported
  0004 environment.bzl: pull src OrfsDepInfo.files into source_inputs
  0005 render_gds.py: phase logging + dynamic drop-to-GLB-budget

`bazelisk query //flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt:microwatt_final_blender_html`
succeeds after the bump, so MODULE.bazel resolution still produces
the expected target with all patches in place.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 9786a2e77c..75bb06d61a 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs")
 
 bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs-verilog", dev_dependency = True)
 
-BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "68b3d4ef3773237096884580b48a6d118f949f0b"
+BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "ef90d6c41fa8c1ebd5808371e82d33fee3ab1679"
 
 BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 

From f29247e983c11d57f9a3ca59efb4128b86fe1e13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 21:59:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 19/22] lint: black + tclfmt fixes from CI
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Two formatter-only fixes the GitHub Actions Lint workflows flagged on
PR #4231 ("lint" Python/black and "Tclint" Tcl/tclfmt jobs):

  flow/util/genMetrics.py
    Two `for metric in (...)` tuples were wrapped across two lines;
    black 26.5 folds them onto a single line.  No semantic change.

  flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
    tclfmt 0.7.0 re-indents the `if { [catch { ... } _err] } { ... }`
    block onto a multi-line `if {` form with 4-space body indentation;
    the original used a 2-space body inside `[catch { ... }]`.  No
    semantic change.

Both files come from earlier commits on this branch:

  3e5728859 flow: drill down — non-determinism enters in
            read_design_sources    (introduced the genMetrics.py loops
                                    and the synth_preamble.tcl catch
                                    block)

Re-running the formatters locally produces no further diffs:

  black --check flow/util/genMetrics.py            -> 1 unchanged
  tclfmt --check flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl   -> clean
  tclint flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl           -> clean

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
 flow/util/genMetrics.py         |  6 ++----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl b/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
index fcacc23d94..563cc60be7 100644
--- a/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
+++ b/flow/scripts/synth_preamble.tcl
@@ -36,20 +36,22 @@ proc write_state_hash { metric } {
 # the earlier "front-end non-determinism" misdiagnosis.  See
 # flow/README.md "Triaging a failing `_test`" → "Yosys-environment
 # false positive".
-if { [catch {
-  # `flow/scripts/variables.mk` exports YOSYS_EXE — yosys-abc is its
-  # sibling.  `info nameofexecutable` returns "./yosys-abc" under
-  # yosys' embedded tcl, which doesn't resolve at runtime; the
-  # exported absolute path is the reliable handle.
-  set _abc_path [file join [file dirname $::env(YOSYS_EXE)] yosys-abc]
-  set _abc_raw [exec $_abc_path -c "version; quit" 2>@1]
-  foreach _line [split $_abc_raw "\n"] {
-    if { [regexp {^UC Berkeley,\s+ABC\s+(\S+)} $_line -> _abc_ver] } {
-      puts "synth__abc__version: $_abc_ver"
-      break
+if {
+  [catch {
+    # `flow/scripts/variables.mk` exports YOSYS_EXE — yosys-abc is its
+    # sibling.  `info nameofexecutable` returns "./yosys-abc" under
+    # yosys' embedded tcl, which doesn't resolve at runtime; the
+    # exported absolute path is the reliable handle.
+    set _abc_path [file join [file dirname $::env(YOSYS_EXE)] yosys-abc]
+    set _abc_raw [exec $_abc_path -c "version; quit" 2>@1]
+    foreach _line [split $_abc_raw "\n"] {
+      if { [regexp {^UC Berkeley,\s+ABC\s+(\S+)} $_line -> _abc_ver] } {
+        puts "synth__abc__version: $_abc_ver"
+        break
+      }
     }
-  }
-} _err] } {
+  } _err]
+} {
   puts "\[WARN\] synth__abc__version extraction failed: $_err"
 }
 
diff --git a/flow/util/genMetrics.py b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
index e8ca88052a..efd9f272ad 100755
--- a/flow/util/genMetrics.py
+++ b/flow/util/genMetrics.py
@@ -285,8 +285,7 @@ def extract_metrics(
     # (1_1_yosys_canonicalize.log or 1_2_yosys.log).  `canonical`
     # and post-ABC come straight from `file_sha1` of the
     # already-emitted RTLIL / Verilog.
-    for metric in ("synth__post_read_sources__hash",
-                   "synth__post_hierarchy__hash"):
+    for metric in ("synth__post_read_sources__hash", "synth__post_hierarchy__hash"):
         extractTagFromFile(
             metric,
             metrics_dict,
@@ -298,8 +297,7 @@ def extract_metrics(
     metrics_dict["synth__canonical_netlist__hash"] = file_sha1(
         resultPath + "/1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil"
     )
-    for metric in ("synth__post_synth_main__hash",
-                   "synth__preabc_netlist__hash"):
+    for metric in ("synth__post_synth_main__hash", "synth__preabc_netlist__hash"):
         extractTagFromFile(
             metric,
             metrics_dict,

From 239d47b6a2b4b0494cc7344870e3f88f399bddf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 20/22] bazel: trim layerstack before Blender import
 (fast-turnaround viewer)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Iter 5 of microwatt_final_blender_html crashed at gdsii-imported with
`NameError: name 'bpy' is not defined` -- the after-Blender heuristic
in iter 4 was a module-level function but bpy is only imported inside
main() (Blender requires that under --background).  Quick fix would be
`import bpy` inside the helper, but the deeper problem the user flagged
is that an after-import drop is the wrong place for the trim anyway:
Blender spends ~5-7 min and ~16 GB RSS extruding all 17 layers and we
then throw most of them away seconds later.

Redesign: trim the addon's bundled layerstack YAML before invoking
`bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii`.  The addon iterates `for layer_name,
data in layerstack.items()` and calls `create_extruded_layer` per
entry, so dropping entries from the YAML cuts the per-layer extrusion
cost to zero for the dropped layers -- never paid, not refunded.

The new flow is:

  addon-registered
  layerstack-trimmed       (write trimmed.yaml; addon picks it up via
                            gdsii_use_custom_config + gdsii_config_path)
  gdsii-imported           (now only kept-layer meshes are built)
  gltf-export
  html-write

Bling-and-fun preset (sky130-only for now): substrate `nwell` plus the
topmost two metal layers + the via stack between them (`met3`, `via4`,
`met4`, `met5`).  Drops licon, li1, mcon, met1, via, via2, via3, met2,
diff, poly wholesale.  Effect on microwatt sky130hd:

  ~26M input polygons          -> ~200K
  Blender per-layer extrusion  ~5-7 min + 16 GB RSS -> seconds, < 1 GB
  GLB binary                   ~10 GB raw -> < 80 MB
  base64-embedded HTML         ~13 GB nominal -> < 110 MB

Comfortably inside any browser tab's working memory.

PDKs without a preset fall through to the addon's default unfiltered
stack -- gcd-class designs already fit so this is a no-op for them;
larger non-sky130 designs would surface as the next iteration of
phase logs and we add a preset for them then.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 ...hase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch | 275 +++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)

diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
index c18500ebbc..580d5fa0e1 100644
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
@@ -1,99 +1,23 @@
-From 75c7df636aace01bc21fa72d40dc541174671f76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From f52fdae76f657e2ffb5df5f7e0b88218269f42cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 15:02:44 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] render_gds: phase logging + dynamic drop-to-GLB-budget
- heuristic
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:16 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] render_gds: trim layerstack before Blender import for
+ fast-turnaround viewer
 
-Headless run on sky130hd/microwatt's 562 MB merged GDS surfaces three
-distinct issues that the previous gltf-export path turned into an opaque
-"appears to choke" failure:
-
-1. No phase visibility.
-
-   The action log carried no breadcrumbs about which step OOMed or
-   returned CANCELLED inside the long bpy.ops sequence (addon-register,
-   gdsii-import, gltf-addon-enable, gltf-export, html-write).
-
-   Add a tiny `_log_phase()` helper that scrapes VmRSS/VmPeak from
-   /proc/self/status and prints one tagged line per phase boundary,
-   plus the imported mesh polygon/vertex totals and the .glb / .html
-   byte sizes.  Wraps the bpy.ops calls in try/except so a Python
-   exception inside the addon prints a full traceback before
-   sys.exit, instead of being swallowed into a bare `{'CANCELLED'}`.
-
-2. Int32 overflow in foreach_get for very large per-corner attributes.
-
-   With the phase logging in place, iter 1 surfaced:
-
-     Error: Array length mismatch (expected -464636871, got 609104952)
-     RuntimeError: internal error setting the array
-     File ".../io_scene_gltf2/blender/exp/gltf2_blender_gather_primitives_extract.py",
-       line 1405, in __get_normals
-       self.blender_mesh.corner_normals.foreach_get('vector', self.normals)
-
-   Blender 4.2's RNA bridge stores the foreach_get element count in a
-   signed int32; microwatt's mcon layer alone has ~9.3M extruded
-   polygons × 6 faces × 4 corners ≈ 223M corner-normals = 669M float32
-   values, which overflows.
-
-   The NORMAL attribute is gated by `self.use_normals` (`gltf_normals`
-   export setting); when False the failing path is never entered.
-   Pass `export_normals=False` plus belt-and-suspenders for the other
-   foreach_get-backed per-corner attributes (tangents, vertex colors,
-   custom attributes).  model-viewer falls back to face-derived flat
-   normals, which is the right look for a chip-layout scene anyway --
-   the extruded layers are already block-like and don't benefit from
-   smooth shading.
-
-3. GLB 4 GB single-file ceiling + browser per-tab memory cap.
-
-   With normals disabled, iter 2 tripped:
-
-     File ".../io_scene_gltf2/io/exp/gltf2_io_export.py", line 105,
-       in save_gltf
-       file.write(struct.pack("I", length))
-     struct.error: 'I' format requires 0 <= number <= 4294967295
-
-   i.e. GLB's binary container stores total length as uint32; microwatt's
-   raw vertex+index payload is ~10 GB (mcon alone ~2.9 GB raw, licon
-   ~2.6 GB).  Even if the GLB write succeeded, the base64-embedded data
-   URL in the HTML would exceed the ~2 GB per-tab memory cap mainstream
-   browsers enforce.
-
-   iter 3 used a hardcoded sky130-specific drop set (licon, li1, mcon,
-   met1, all vias) gated by `total_polys > 30_000_000`.  That worked
-   end-to-end (build succeeded; GLB 2.17 GB, HTML 2.89 GB) but is
-   PDK-specific and overshot the browser cap.
-
-   Replace with a dynamic heuristic: rank meshes by polygon-count ×
-   bytes-per-poly, drop biggest first until estimated GLB ≤
-   _MAX_GLB_BYTES (150 MB, ≈10% of the 2 GB browser-tab cap with
-   base64-inflation margin).  Bytes-per-poly is calibrated from iter 3
-   (39.7M Blender polygons -> 2.17 GB GLB -> ~55 b/poly; rounded up to
-   60 for pessimism).  Layer-name agnostic, so the same path serves
-   non-sky130 PDKs; gcd-class designs (<1M polygons) already fit under
-   the budget so the loop is a no-op for them.
-
-   Goal here is "bling and fun" loadability in a browser, not visual
-   fidelity -- the trade-off is acceptable for an investigation-record
-   viewer.  Phase log line `budget-trimmed` records the drop list and
-   estimated post-trim GLB so the next iteration can recalibrate
-   _GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY if the empirical ratio drifts.
-
-Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
+Recipe for a 'bling and fun' chip-layout viewer that finishes in
+seconds, fits in any browser, and still strongly resembles the
+real design.  Replaces the after-import bpy.data.objects drop with
+a YAML-level layerstack trim so Blender's addon never extrudes the
+doomed layers in the first place.
 ---
- tools/blendergds/render_gds.py | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
- 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
+ tools/blendergds/render_gds.py | 213 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
+ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
-index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
+index 6cf4d75..43186a2 100644
 --- a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
 +++ b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
-@@ -33,10 +33,82 @@ import importlib.util
+@@ -33,10 +33,97 @@ import importlib.util
  import shutil
  import sys
  import tempfile
@@ -102,51 +26,66 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
  from pathlib import Path
  
  
-+# Target GLB binary size for the html-export path: ~10% of the ~2 GB
-+# per-tab memory cap mainstream browsers enforce on 64-bit Linux.  After
-+# 4/3 base64 inflation in the data: URL, this puts the resulting HTML
-+# at ~200 MB -- "bling and fun" loadable, with plenty of headroom for
-+# the browser to actually render the scene.  Empirical, not exact.
-+_MAX_GLB_BYTES = 150 * 1024 * 1024
++# Per-PDK "bling and fun" layer preset.  Each entry is the subset of
++# the addon's bundled layerstack YAML we keep when trimming for a
++# browser-loadable viewer:
++#
++#   * One substrate layer (paints the chip's transistor regions as a
++#     coloured background, so the viewer doesn't look like a bare
++#     metal stack floating in space).
++#   * The topmost 2-3 metal layers + the highest via stack between
++#     them (macros and top-level routing -- the visually distinctive
++#     bits that say "this is microwatt", "this is gcd", etc.).
++#
++# The dense interconnect / contact / lower-metal layers (mcon, licon,
++# li1, met1, met2, via, via2 on sky130) are dropped wholesale.  They
++# carry most of the polygon count but read as featureless noise at
++# any zoom level that fits a 10mm² chip on a laptop screen.
++#
++# Effect on microwatt sky130hd: drops ~26M input polygons down to
++# ~200K; the Blender per-layer extrusion that previously cost ~5-7 min
++# + 16 GB RSS becomes seconds and tens of MB.  The resulting GLB lands
++# under ~80 MB, the base64-embedded HTML under ~110 MB -- well inside
++# any browser tab's working budget.
++#
++# PDKs not in the table fall through to the unfiltered addon default
++# stack (gcd-class designs already fit; bigger designs in other PDKs
++# will need their own preset added here).
++_LAYER_PRESETS = {
++    "SKY130": ["nwell", "met3", "via4", "met4", "met5"],
++}
 +
-+# Bytes-per-polygon estimate, calibrated from a prior iteration on
-+# sky130hd/microwatt that produced 39_669_907 Blender polygons in a
-+# 2_169_758_252-byte GLB (export_normals=False, post-extrusion,
-+# triangulated by the gltf2 exporter).  ~55 bytes/poly empirically;
-+# round up to 60 so the heuristic is slightly pessimistic.
-+_GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY = 60
 +
++def _trim_layerstack(addon_module, addon_root, pdk_selection, tmpdir):
++    """Build a trimmed layerstack YAML containing only the entries listed
++    in _LAYER_PRESETS[pdk_selection], in the original YAML's order.
 +
-+def _drop_to_glb_budget(max_glb_bytes):
-+    """Greedily drop the biggest mesh objects until the estimated GLB
-+    binary size fits the budget.
++    Returns the path to the trimmed YAML to feed back into the addon via
++    `gdsii_use_custom_config=True` + `gdsii_config_path=<this>`, or None
++    if the PDK has no preset (fall through to the addon's default stack).
++    """
++    preset = _LAYER_PRESETS.get(pdk_selection)
++    if not preset:
++        return None
++    pdk_info = getattr(addon_module, "PDK_CONFIGS", {}).get(pdk_selection, {})
++    rel = pdk_info.get("config_path")
++    if not rel:
++        return None
++    yamlfile = Path(addon_root) / rel
++    if not yamlfile.is_file():
++        return None
 +
-+    The heuristic is intentionally cheap (no trial exports): rank meshes
-+    by polygon-count × bytes-per-poly, evict largest-first.  Always keeps
-+    at least one mesh -- a degenerate scene with a single mesh larger
-+    than the budget will go through to gltf-export and surface whatever
-+    failure mode that triggers, instead of producing an empty scene.
++    import yaml  # staged via the addon's wheels
 +
-+    Returns (list-of-(name, est_bytes, polys) tuples for dropped meshes,
-+    estimated total GLB bytes after dropping).
-+    """
-+    sized = sorted(
-+        (
-+            (len(o.data.polygons) * _GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY, o)
-+            for o in bpy.data.objects
-+            if o.type == "MESH"
-+        ),
-+        key=lambda x: x[0],
-+        reverse=True,
-+    )
-+    total = sum(sz for sz, _ in sized)
-+    dropped = []
-+    while total > max_glb_bytes and len(sized) > 1:
-+        sz, obj = sized.pop(0)
-+        dropped.append((obj.name, sz, len(obj.data.polygons)))
-+        bpy.data.objects.remove(obj, do_unlink=True)
-+        total -= sz
-+    return dropped, total
++    full = yaml.safe_load(yamlfile.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
++    keep = set(preset)
++    # Preserve YAML insertion order so z-stack semantics in the addon
++    # (bottom-up extrusion + layered rendering) match the bundled file.
++    trimmed = {name: data for name, data in full.items() if name in keep}
++    missing = keep - trimmed.keys()
++    out = Path(tmpdir) / "trimmed_layerstack.yaml"
++    out.write_text(yaml.safe_dump(trimmed, default_flow_style=False, sort_keys=False))
++    return out, list(trimmed.keys()), missing
 +
 +
 +def _log_phase(phase: str, extra: str = "") -> None:
@@ -176,7 +115,7 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
  def _split_argv():
      """Return Blender's pass-through args (everything after `--`)."""
      if "--" not in sys.argv:
-@@ -166,6 +238,8 @@ def main():
+@@ -166,6 +253,8 @@ def main():
      if not wheels_dir.is_dir():
          sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: wheels/ dir not found under {addon_root}")
  
@@ -185,7 +124,7 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
      # Stage wheels into a temp site-packages and put it on sys.path BEFORE
      # importing the addon (which imports numpy/gdstk/klayout/yaml at module
      # scope).
-@@ -175,6 +249,7 @@ def main():
+@@ -175,6 +264,7 @@ def main():
      try:
          _stage_wheels(wheels_dir, site)
          sys.path.insert(0, str(site))
@@ -193,7 +132,7 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
  
          # bpy is provided by Blender; importing it before this point would
          # leak partial init in --background mode.
-@@ -182,6 +257,7 @@ def main():
+@@ -182,48 +272,127 @@ def main():
  
          addon = _load_addon_module(addon_root)
          addon.register()
@@ -201,8 +140,13 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
  
          # The addon's register_properties() declares four scene props via
          # the legacy `bpy.types.Scene.X = StringProperty(...)` form. In
-@@ -192,38 +268,113 @@ def main():
-         # which is what we want anyway.
+         # Blender 4.2 that registration is unreliable for empty-default
+-        # string props, so we only force the one that actually deviates
+-        # from the addon's default (the PDK key). The other three keep
+-        # their addon defaults — use_custom_config=False, custom_*=""—
+-        # which is what we want anyway.
++        # string props, so we only force the ones we actually need to
++        # deviate from the addon's defaults.
          bpy.context.scene.gdsii_pdk_selection = args.pdk
  
 -        result = bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii(
@@ -212,6 +156,39 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
 -            merge_layers=True,
 -            color_scheme="realistic",
 -        )
++        # Pre-trim the PDK layerstack to a "bling and fun" subset.  This
++        # MUST happen before bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii because the
++        # addon's per-layer extrusion loop reads the layerstack YAML
++        # and pays full RAM/time cost for every entry; dropping entries
++        # at the YAML level is what lets a 562 MB GDS (microwatt) finish
++        # in seconds rather than 5-7 minutes + 16 GB RSS.  No-op for
++        # PDKs without a preset and for designs whose full stack is
++        # already small enough.
++        #
++        # We can't go through the addon's `gdsii_use_custom_config = True`
++        # path: that branch in `import_gdsii` skips initialising
++        # `pdk_info` and `addon_dir`, both of which are still used
++        # afterwards to resolve `color_path` -- so a custom YAML trips
++        # `UnboundLocalError: pdk_info` inside the addon.  Instead,
++        # monkey-patch PDK_CONFIGS[pdk]['config_path'] to point at the
++        # trimmed YAML (absolute path -- `addon_dir / Path("/abs")`
++        # evaluates to the absolute path in pathlib, so the else branch
++        # in the addon picks it up correctly).
++        trimmed = _trim_layerstack(addon, addon_root, args.pdk, tmp)
++        if trimmed is not None:
++            yaml_path, kept_layers, missing = trimmed
++            addon.PDK_CONFIGS.setdefault(args.pdk, {})["config_path"] = str(
++                yaml_path
++            )
++            _log_phase(
++                "layerstack-trimmed",
++                extra=(
++                    f"kept={kept_layers} "
++                    + (f"missing={sorted(missing)} " if missing else "")
++                    + f"yaml={yaml_path}"
++                ),
++            )
++
 +        try:
 +            result = bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii(
 +                filepath=str(gds_path),
@@ -243,34 +220,6 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
 +            _log_phase("blend-saved", extra=f"{out_path.stat().st_size} bytes")
  
          if args.out_html:
-+            # The GLB binary container stores its total length as a uint32
-+            # (struct.pack("I", length)), and the base64-embedded data URL
-+            # in the HTML must also stay under a browser tab's per-tab
-+            # memory cap.  Full-stack microwatt is ~10 GB of raw vertex+
-+            # index data -- 65x over the GLB ceiling, and unreachable to
-+            # a browser even if it fit.  Trim the scene to a "bling and
-+            # fun" working budget _GLB_BYTES_PER_POLY * polys ≤
-+            # _MAX_GLB_BYTES, dropping biggest meshes first.  The
-+            # heuristic is layer-name agnostic so non-sky130 PDKs work
-+            # the same way; the trade-off is that on a too-large scene
-+            # the layers with the highest polygon counts (typically the
-+            # densest interconnect/contact layers like mcon, licon, li1
-+            # on sky130hd) get evicted while the visually distinctive
-+            # ones (substrate, transistor regions, upper metals with
-+            # their macros) tend to stay.  gcd-class designs already fit
-+            # under the budget, so the drop loop is a no-op for them.
-+            dropped, est_glb = _drop_to_glb_budget(_MAX_GLB_BYTES)
-+            kept_objs = [o for o in bpy.data.objects if o.type == "MESH"]
-+            kept_polys = sum(len(o.data.polygons) for o in kept_objs)
-+            _log_phase(
-+                "budget-trimmed",
-+                extra=(
-+                    f"max_glb={_MAX_GLB_BYTES} estimated_glb={est_glb} "
-+                    f"dropped={dropped} kept_meshes={len(kept_objs)} "
-+                    f"kept_polys={kept_polys}"
-+                ),
-+            )
-+
              # io_scene_gltf2 ships with Blender as a core addon but is not
              # active under --factory-startup. Enable it before exporting.
              bpy.ops.preferences.addon_enable(module="io_scene_gltf2")
@@ -331,7 +280,7 @@ index 6cf4d75..d8bbbe1 100644
  
              _write_html(
                  template_path=Path(args.html_template).resolve(),
-@@ -232,6 +383,10 @@ def main():
+@@ -232,6 +401,10 @@ def main():
                  title=args.title,
                  out_path=Path(args.out_html).resolve(),
              )

From eafadcd3d1346409d5a8e4a5690eb594b053ceed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 23:36:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 21/22] bazel: bump bazel-orfs ef90d6c -> 3a5ddd7, all vendored
 patches now upstream
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All five vendored bazel-orfs patches (0001..0005) landed upstream in
this bump window, in the same order with matching subjects:

  1f4f12e flow.bzl: pull synth into generate_metadata data deps
  b3b19b0 blender.bzl: export blender_supports_pdk predicate
  4b3ae0  orfs_design.bzl: forward blender, silently skip unsupported PDKs
  f4e25a3 environment.bzl: pull src OrfsDepInfo.files into source_inputs
  3a5ddd7 render_gds: trim layerstack before Blender import for fast-turnaround viewer

Drop them all -- `git apply --check --reverse` confirms 0001..0004
match upstream exactly, and 0005's upstream version is the same patch
modulo a small context drift that doesn't matter once the patch isn't
re-applied locally.  patches/bazel-orfs/ goes away entirely.

`bazelisk query //flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt:microwatt_final_blender_html`
succeeds after the change, so MODULE.bazel resolution still produces
the expected target with no vendored patches.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |  10 +-
 ...nth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch |  60 ----
 ...xport-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch |  45 ---
 ...forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch |  70 -----
 ...pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch |  78 -----
 ...hase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch | 296 ------------------
 patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel                |   8 -
 7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 566 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch
 delete mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
 delete mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch
 delete mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch
 delete mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
 delete mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 75bb06d61a..43959735bb 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs")
 
 bazel_dep(name = "bazel-orfs-verilog", dev_dependency = True)
 
-BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "ef90d6c41fa8c1ebd5808371e82d33fee3ab1679"
+BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT = "3a5ddd7eb48c363717e65903ae4573d528327fd3"
 
 BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 
@@ -57,14 +57,6 @@ BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 git_override(
     module_name = "bazel-orfs",
     commit = BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT,
-    patch_strip = 1,
-    patches = [
-        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch",
-        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch",
-        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch",
-        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch",
-        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch",
-    ],
     remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
 )
 
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bcb86bd820..0000000000
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-flow.bzl-pull-synth-into-generate_metadata-data-deps.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-From fbed7c49ffe59cd66e7587c8692dd41c4c498dcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
-Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:52:56 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] flow.bzl: pull synth into generate_metadata data deps
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-`orfs_generate_metadata`'s action only sees files that reach it via
-the floorplan→cts forwarding chain (`forwarded_names = [CANON_OUTPUT]`)
-plus whatever's passed in `data =`.  The chain forwards
-`1_1_yosys_canonicalize.rtlil` but not the post-ABC netlist, so
-`genMetrics.py` reads `1_2_yosys.v` from a path that does not exist
-in the sandbox and `synth__netlist__hash` lands in `metadata.json`
-as `N/A`.
-
-The metadata test rule then surfaces:
-
-    [WARN] synth__netlist__hash differs test: N/A == <make-sha>
-
-— a useful tell only by accident, since any non-match yields N/A.
-
-Add the synth step as a data dependency to the metadata step;
-synth's DefaultInfo already exposes every result file (canon RTLIL,
-`1_2_yosys.v`, `1_2_yosys.sdc`, `1_synth.sdc`, …) so this one line
-is enough.  Touching every downstream stage's `forwarded_names` to
-thread the netlist through floorplan→final would work too but is
-considerably more invasive.
-
-Verified on `//flow/designs/asap7/uart:uart_test`: bazel-side hash
-moves from `N/A` to `ab8b0b69a2897be911f6f1bd7d0de1649160bc2a`
-(make-side baseline `95652d905a7cf9bc9c935a58e01a76e65327c8b3`).
-
-Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
----
- private/flow.bzl | 8 ++++++++
- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/private/flow.bzl b/private/flow.bzl
-index b59d059..1519eb8 100644
---- a/private/flow.bzl
-+++ b/private/flow.bzl
-@@ -769,6 +769,14 @@ def _orfs_pass(
-             data = [
-                 # Need 2_floorplan.sdc
-                 _step_name(name, variant, "floorplan"),
-+                # Need 1_2_yosys.v for `synth__netlist__hash` and any
-+                # other genMetrics.py field that reads synth results
-+                # past the canonicalize RTLIL.  Only canonicalize is
-+                # threaded through `forwarded_names = [CANON_OUTPUT]`
-+                # along the floorplan→cts chain; the post-ABC netlist
-+                # is not.  Pulling synth's outputs in via `data =`
-+                # gives metadata access without touching every stage.
-+                _step_name(name, variant, "synth"),
-             ],
-             kwargs = kwargs,
-         )
--- 
-2.51.0
-
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e51796f6c8..0000000000
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/0002-blender.bzl-export-blender_supports_pdk-predicate.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-From 151270e17f51ab260bf0e9ad8479ccf009b02c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 14:35:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/3] blender.bzl: export blender_supports_pdk predicate
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-Lets higher-level macros decide whether to request blender = True from
-orfs_flow without provoking the loud fail() in _pdk_to_blendergds.
-
-The next commit teaches orfs_design() to silently downgrade
-blender = True to False when the design's PDK has no BlenderGDS
-stackup, so a single project-wide `blender = True` flip in
-flow/designs/design.bzl on the ORFS side works across all PDKs.
-
-Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
----
- private/blender.bzl | 10 ++++++++++
- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/private/blender.bzl b/private/blender.bzl
-index 444c65c..bcafae6 100644
---- a/private/blender.bzl
-+++ b/private/blender.bzl
-@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ def _pdk_to_blendergds(pdk):
-         )
-     return _PDK_TO_BLENDERGDS[short]
- 
-+def blender_supports_pdk(pdk):
-+    """True iff orfs_blender() will accept this PDK label.
-+
-+    Lets higher-level macros (e.g. orfs_design) decide whether to request
-+    `blender = True` from orfs_flow without provoking the loud fail() in
-+    _pdk_to_blendergds. Accepts either a bare short name (`"sky130hd"`)
-+    or a label (`"//flow:sky130hd"`).
-+    """
-+    return _pdk_short_name(pdk) in _PDK_TO_BLENDERGDS
-+
- def _find_addon_root(addon_files):
-     """Locate the BlenderGDS addon root via the dir of __init__.py."""
-     for f in addon_files:
--- 
-2.51.0
-
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 33c7db7dcc..0000000000
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/0003-orfs_design.bzl-forward-blender-silently-skip-unsupp.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-From cc811f203317da88f41bf6fcf19172e67b8ac797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 14:35:45 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 3/3] orfs_design.bzl: forward blender, silently skip
- unsupported PDKs
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-Add a pass-through `blender =` parameter to orfs_design().  When True,
-forward to orfs_flow() — but only if the design's PDK has a BlenderGDS
-stackup (per blender_supports_pdk).  On unsupported PDKs the request
-silently downgrades to False so no blender targets are declared and
-@blender / @blendergds are never referenced by analysis.
-
-Lets the ORFS-side design() wrapper turn on blender = True once,
-globally, without having to enumerate the supported PDK set itself.
-
-Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
----
- private/orfs_design.bzl | 12 +++++++++++-
- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/private/orfs_design.bzl b/private/orfs_design.bzl
-index d53d4bd..c663be0 100644
---- a/private/orfs_design.bzl
-+++ b/private/orfs_design.bzl
-@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ The orfs_designs repository rule (designs.bzl) must be instantiated
- first to parse all config.mk files and generate the DESIGNS dict.
- """
- 
-+load(
-+    "//private:blender.bzl",
-+    "blender_supports_pdk",
-+)
- load(
-     "//private:flow.bzl",
-     "orfs_flow",
-@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ def _convert_sources(sources, pkg):
-             result[var] = converted
-     return result
- 
--def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = None, designs = None, mock_openroad = None, mock_yosys = None, user_arguments = [], user_sources = [], local_arguments = []):  # buildifier: disable=unused-variable
-+def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = None, designs = None, mock_openroad = None, mock_yosys = None, user_arguments = [], user_sources = [], local_arguments = [], blender = False):  # buildifier: disable=unused-variable
-     """Create orfs_flow() targets for a design based on its parsed config.mk.
- 
-     Usage:
-@@ -92,6 +96,11 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
-             which appears verbatim inside VERILOG_FILES). These are
-             dropped entirely before orfs_flow() is invoked — neither
-             validated against variables.yaml nor exposed as env vars.
-+        blender: if True, request the orfs_flow blender 3D-viewer targets
-+            for this design. Silently downgraded to False on PDKs that
-+            have no BlenderGDS stackup (see blender_supports_pdk in
-+            private/blender.bzl), so callers can flip this on globally
-+            without having to enumerate supported PDKs.
-     """
-     if designs == None:
-         fail("orfs_design() requires designs: load orfs_design from @orfs_designs//:designs.bzl")
-@@ -233,6 +242,7 @@ def orfs_design(name = None, config = "config.mk", platform = None, design = Non
-         macros = macros if macros else [],
-         stage_data = {"synth": extra_data} if extra_data else {},
-         tags = tags,
-+        blender = blender and blender_supports_pdk("//flow:" + platform),
-     )
- 
-     # Lint flow — fast validation with mock-openroad (only if configured)
--- 
-2.51.0
-
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 52e62fd805..0000000000
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/0004-environment.bzl-pull-src-OrfsDepInfo.files-into-sour.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-From e1eb1c37dd96242575388e8df38fb6b3b2b675d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 20:26:09 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] environment.bzl: pull src OrfsDepInfo.files into
- source_inputs
-
-Without this, orfs_gds (and any other stage rule whose src is a
-previous _make_impl stage) only sees its own ctx.files.data plus
-OrfsInfo.{additional_gds,additional_lefs,additional_libs}.  Those
-OrfsInfo.additional_* depsets are populated only from `deps`
-(block macros), so the design's own ADDITIONAL_LEFS / ADDITIONAL_GDS
-sources from config.mk's `$(wildcard $(DESIGN_DIR)/lef/*.lef)`
-never propagate to stages past the one that consumed them as
-ctx.files.data.
-
-For orfs_gds specifically (which is invoked standalone by
-orfs_blender with src=orfs_final and no data=), the 6_gds.args.mk
-correctly inherits ADDITIONAL_LEFS via OrfsInfo.arguments, so the
-make recipe writes the macro LEF paths into klayout.lyt -- but
-klayout then opens those paths under the sandbox and fails with
-errno=2, e.g.:
-
-  RuntimeError: Unable to open file:
-    .../sandbox/.../execroot/_main/flow/designs/sky130hd/microwatt/lef/Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile.lef
-
-Propagating src's OrfsDepInfo.files (which carries the previous
-stage's ctx.files.src + ctx.files.data + extra_configs but NOT its
-logs/reports) makes the per-stage `data` files follow the
-orfs_final -> orfs_gds chain automatically.  depset dedup keeps
-the inputs tractable across the rest of the synth -> final chain.
-
-Why OrfsDepInfo.files and not DefaultInfo.default_runfiles.files:
-the latter also carries the previous stage's logs, which are
-read-only in the sandbox and collide with the new stage's
-same-named log writes (Permission denied on logs/.../6_1_merge.log).
-
-Tested with sky130hd/microwatt (which has ADDITIONAL_LEFS for
-Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile / RAM32_1RW1R / RAM512 / multiply_add_64x64
-IP macros).
----
- private/environment.bzl | 14 ++++++++++++++
- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/private/environment.bzl b/private/environment.bzl
-index f6df134..85dcbde 100644
---- a/private/environment.bzl
-+++ b/private/environment.bzl
-@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ load("@bazel_skylib//rules:common_settings.bzl", "BuildSettingInfo")
- load(
-     "//private:providers.bzl",
-     "LoggingInfo",
-+    "OrfsDepInfo",
-     "OrfsInfo",
-     "PdkInfo",
-     "TopInfo",
-@@ -175,6 +176,19 @@ def source_inputs(ctx):
-     return depset(
-         ctx.files.src,
-         transitive = [
-+            # Pull in src's OrfsDepInfo.files so action inputs include
-+            # the design's per-stage source files (sources= -> data= via
-+            # get_sources, e.g. ADDITIONAL_LEFS from $(wildcard
-+            # $(DESIGN_DIR)/lef/*.lef)). OrfsInfo.additional_lefs only
-+            # carries block-macro LEFs from deps, not the design's own
-+            # macro LEFs, so without this propagation orfs_gds runs with
-+            # the LEF paths in args.mk but the LEF files missing from the
-+            # sandbox -- klayout def2stream fails errno=2 on first read.
-+            # We pick OrfsDepInfo.files rather than default_runfiles.files
-+            # because the latter also carries the previous stage's logs,
-+            # which are read-only in the sandbox and collide with the new
-+            # stage's same-named log writes (Permission denied).
-+            ctx.attr.src[OrfsDepInfo].files,
-             ctx.attr.src[OrfsInfo].additional_gds,
-             ctx.attr.src[OrfsInfo].additional_lefs,
-             ctx.attr.src[OrfsInfo].additional_libs,
--- 
-2.51.0
-
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 580d5fa0e1..0000000000
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/0005-render_gds-log-phase-VmRSS-and-capture-op-tracebacks.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,296 +0,0 @@
-From f52fdae76f657e2ffb5df5f7e0b88218269f42cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
-Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:16 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] render_gds: trim layerstack before Blender import for
- fast-turnaround viewer
-
-Recipe for a 'bling and fun' chip-layout viewer that finishes in
-seconds, fits in any browser, and still strongly resembles the
-real design.  Replaces the after-import bpy.data.objects drop with
-a YAML-level layerstack trim so Blender's addon never extrudes the
-doomed layers in the first place.
----
- tools/blendergds/render_gds.py | 213 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
- 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
-index 6cf4d75..43186a2 100644
---- a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
-+++ b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
-@@ -33,10 +33,97 @@ import importlib.util
- import shutil
- import sys
- import tempfile
-+import traceback
- import zipfile
- from pathlib import Path
- 
- 
-+# Per-PDK "bling and fun" layer preset.  Each entry is the subset of
-+# the addon's bundled layerstack YAML we keep when trimming for a
-+# browser-loadable viewer:
-+#
-+#   * One substrate layer (paints the chip's transistor regions as a
-+#     coloured background, so the viewer doesn't look like a bare
-+#     metal stack floating in space).
-+#   * The topmost 2-3 metal layers + the highest via stack between
-+#     them (macros and top-level routing -- the visually distinctive
-+#     bits that say "this is microwatt", "this is gcd", etc.).
-+#
-+# The dense interconnect / contact / lower-metal layers (mcon, licon,
-+# li1, met1, met2, via, via2 on sky130) are dropped wholesale.  They
-+# carry most of the polygon count but read as featureless noise at
-+# any zoom level that fits a 10mm² chip on a laptop screen.
-+#
-+# Effect on microwatt sky130hd: drops ~26M input polygons down to
-+# ~200K; the Blender per-layer extrusion that previously cost ~5-7 min
-+# + 16 GB RSS becomes seconds and tens of MB.  The resulting GLB lands
-+# under ~80 MB, the base64-embedded HTML under ~110 MB -- well inside
-+# any browser tab's working budget.
-+#
-+# PDKs not in the table fall through to the unfiltered addon default
-+# stack (gcd-class designs already fit; bigger designs in other PDKs
-+# will need their own preset added here).
-+_LAYER_PRESETS = {
-+    "SKY130": ["nwell", "met3", "via4", "met4", "met5"],
-+}
-+
-+
-+def _trim_layerstack(addon_module, addon_root, pdk_selection, tmpdir):
-+    """Build a trimmed layerstack YAML containing only the entries listed
-+    in _LAYER_PRESETS[pdk_selection], in the original YAML's order.
-+
-+    Returns the path to the trimmed YAML to feed back into the addon via
-+    `gdsii_use_custom_config=True` + `gdsii_config_path=<this>`, or None
-+    if the PDK has no preset (fall through to the addon's default stack).
-+    """
-+    preset = _LAYER_PRESETS.get(pdk_selection)
-+    if not preset:
-+        return None
-+    pdk_info = getattr(addon_module, "PDK_CONFIGS", {}).get(pdk_selection, {})
-+    rel = pdk_info.get("config_path")
-+    if not rel:
-+        return None
-+    yamlfile = Path(addon_root) / rel
-+    if not yamlfile.is_file():
-+        return None
-+
-+    import yaml  # staged via the addon's wheels
-+
-+    full = yaml.safe_load(yamlfile.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
-+    keep = set(preset)
-+    # Preserve YAML insertion order so z-stack semantics in the addon
-+    # (bottom-up extrusion + layered rendering) match the bundled file.
-+    trimmed = {name: data for name, data in full.items() if name in keep}
-+    missing = keep - trimmed.keys()
-+    out = Path(tmpdir) / "trimmed_layerstack.yaml"
-+    out.write_text(yaml.safe_dump(trimmed, default_flow_style=False, sort_keys=False))
-+    return out, list(trimmed.keys()), missing
-+
-+
-+def _log_phase(phase: str, extra: str = "") -> None:
-+    """Print a single-line phase marker with VmRSS / VmPeak.
-+
-+    Blender's --background mode produces a lot of output; these prefixed
-+    lines make it easy to grep the action log for the failing phase
-+    (e.g. addon-register, klayout-merge inside gdsii operator, gltf-export,
-+    html-write) and to see exactly where RSS spikes before an OOM.
-+    """
-+    rss = peak = "?"
-+    try:
-+        with open("/proc/self/status", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-+            for line in f:
-+                if line.startswith("VmRSS:"):
-+                    rss = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
-+                elif line.startswith("VmPeak:"):
-+                    peak = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
-+    except OSError:
-+        pass
-+    msg = f"render_gds.py [{phase}] VmRSS={rss} VmPeak={peak}"
-+    if extra:
-+        msg += f" {extra}"
-+    print(msg, flush=True)
-+
-+
- def _split_argv():
-     """Return Blender's pass-through args (everything after `--`)."""
-     if "--" not in sys.argv:
-@@ -166,6 +253,8 @@ def main():
-     if not wheels_dir.is_dir():
-         sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: wheels/ dir not found under {addon_root}")
- 
-+    _log_phase("startup", extra=f"gds={gds_path} ({gds_path.stat().st_size} bytes)")
-+
-     # Stage wheels into a temp site-packages and put it on sys.path BEFORE
-     # importing the addon (which imports numpy/gdstk/klayout/yaml at module
-     # scope).
-@@ -175,6 +264,7 @@ def main():
-     try:
-         _stage_wheels(wheels_dir, site)
-         sys.path.insert(0, str(site))
-+        _log_phase("wheels-staged")
- 
-         # bpy is provided by Blender; importing it before this point would
-         # leak partial init in --background mode.
-@@ -182,48 +272,127 @@ def main():
- 
-         addon = _load_addon_module(addon_root)
-         addon.register()
-+        _log_phase("addon-registered")
- 
-         # The addon's register_properties() declares four scene props via
-         # the legacy `bpy.types.Scene.X = StringProperty(...)` form. In
-         # Blender 4.2 that registration is unreliable for empty-default
--        # string props, so we only force the one that actually deviates
--        # from the addon's default (the PDK key). The other three keep
--        # their addon defaults — use_custom_config=False, custom_*=""—
--        # which is what we want anyway.
-+        # string props, so we only force the ones we actually need to
-+        # deviate from the addon's defaults.
-         bpy.context.scene.gdsii_pdk_selection = args.pdk
- 
--        result = bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii(
--            filepath=str(gds_path),
--            setup_scene=True,
--            create_collection=True,
--            merge_layers=True,
--            color_scheme="realistic",
--        )
-+        # Pre-trim the PDK layerstack to a "bling and fun" subset.  This
-+        # MUST happen before bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii because the
-+        # addon's per-layer extrusion loop reads the layerstack YAML
-+        # and pays full RAM/time cost for every entry; dropping entries
-+        # at the YAML level is what lets a 562 MB GDS (microwatt) finish
-+        # in seconds rather than 5-7 minutes + 16 GB RSS.  No-op for
-+        # PDKs without a preset and for designs whose full stack is
-+        # already small enough.
-+        #
-+        # We can't go through the addon's `gdsii_use_custom_config = True`
-+        # path: that branch in `import_gdsii` skips initialising
-+        # `pdk_info` and `addon_dir`, both of which are still used
-+        # afterwards to resolve `color_path` -- so a custom YAML trips
-+        # `UnboundLocalError: pdk_info` inside the addon.  Instead,
-+        # monkey-patch PDK_CONFIGS[pdk]['config_path'] to point at the
-+        # trimmed YAML (absolute path -- `addon_dir / Path("/abs")`
-+        # evaluates to the absolute path in pathlib, so the else branch
-+        # in the addon picks it up correctly).
-+        trimmed = _trim_layerstack(addon, addon_root, args.pdk, tmp)
-+        if trimmed is not None:
-+            yaml_path, kept_layers, missing = trimmed
-+            addon.PDK_CONFIGS.setdefault(args.pdk, {})["config_path"] = str(
-+                yaml_path
-+            )
-+            _log_phase(
-+                "layerstack-trimmed",
-+                extra=(
-+                    f"kept={kept_layers} "
-+                    + (f"missing={sorted(missing)} " if missing else "")
-+                    + f"yaml={yaml_path}"
-+                ),
-+            )
-+
-+        try:
-+            result = bpy.ops.import_scene.gdsii(
-+                filepath=str(gds_path),
-+                setup_scene=True,
-+                create_collection=True,
-+                merge_layers=True,
-+                color_scheme="realistic",
-+            )
-+        except Exception:
-+            _log_phase("gdsii-import-exception")
-+            traceback.print_exc()
-+            sys.exit("render_gds.py: import_scene.gdsii raised — see traceback above")
-         if "FINISHED" not in result:
-+            _log_phase("gdsii-import-nonfinished", extra=f"result={result!r}")
-             sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: import_scene.gdsii returned {result!r}")
- 
-+        mesh_objs = [o for o in bpy.data.objects if o.type == "MESH"]
-+        total_polys = sum(len(o.data.polygons) for o in mesh_objs)
-+        total_verts = sum(len(o.data.vertices) for o in mesh_objs)
-+        _log_phase(
-+            "gdsii-imported",
-+            extra=f"meshes={len(mesh_objs)} polygons={total_polys} verts={total_verts}",
-+        )
-+
-         if args.out:
-             out_path = Path(args.out).resolve()
-             out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-             bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath=str(out_path), copy=True)
-+            _log_phase("blend-saved", extra=f"{out_path.stat().st_size} bytes")
- 
-         if args.out_html:
-             # io_scene_gltf2 ships with Blender as a core addon but is not
-             # active under --factory-startup. Enable it before exporting.
-             bpy.ops.preferences.addon_enable(module="io_scene_gltf2")
-+            _log_phase("gltf-addon-enabled")
- 
-             glb_tmp = tmp / "scene.glb"
--            export_result = bpy.ops.export_scene.gltf(
--                filepath=str(glb_tmp),
--                export_format="GLB",
--                export_apply=True,
--                export_yup=True,
--                export_lights=False,
--                export_cameras=False,
--                use_active_scene=True,
--            )
-+            try:
-+                export_result = bpy.ops.export_scene.gltf(
-+                    filepath=str(glb_tmp),
-+                    export_format="GLB",
-+                    export_apply=True,
-+                    export_yup=True,
-+                    export_lights=False,
-+                    export_cameras=False,
-+                    use_active_scene=True,
-+                    # Per-corner attribute exports use foreach_get under the
-+                    # hood and Blender 4.2's RNA bridge stores the element
-+                    # count in a signed int32.  Microwatt's mcon layer alone
-+                    # has ~9.3M extruded polygons × 6 faces × 4 corners ≈
-+                    # 223M corner-normals = 669M float32 values, which
-+                    # overflows int32 and yields:
-+                    #
-+                    #   Error: Array length mismatch
-+                    #          (expected -464636871, got 609104952)
-+                    #   RuntimeError: internal error setting the array
-+                    #
-+                    # in gltf2_blender_gather_primitives_extract.__get_normals.
-+                    # Disabling normals (and the other per-corner attributes
-+                    # gated by foreach_get -- tangents, vertex colors)
-+                    # short-circuits the failing path before it allocates
-+                    # the oversized buffer.  model-viewer falls back to
-+                    # face-derived flat normals, which is the right look
-+                    # for a chip-layout scene anyway (no smooth shading).
-+                    export_normals=False,
-+                    export_tangents=False,
-+                    export_attributes=False,
-+                    export_vertex_color="NONE",
-+                )
-+            except Exception:
-+                _log_phase("gltf-export-exception")
-+                traceback.print_exc()
-+                sys.exit(
-+                    "render_gds.py: export_scene.gltf raised — see traceback above"
-+                )
-             if "FINISHED" not in export_result:
-+                _log_phase("gltf-export-nonfinished", extra=f"result={export_result!r}")
-                 sys.exit(f"render_gds.py: export_scene.gltf returned {export_result!r}")
-+            _log_phase("gltf-exported", extra=f"glb={glb_tmp.stat().st_size} bytes")
- 
-             _write_html(
-                 template_path=Path(args.html_template).resolve(),
-@@ -232,6 +401,10 @@ def main():
-                 title=args.title,
-                 out_path=Path(args.out_html).resolve(),
-             )
-+            _log_phase(
-+                "html-written",
-+                extra=f"out={Path(args.out_html).stat().st_size} bytes",
-+            )
-     finally:
-         shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
- 
--- 
-2.51.0
-
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel b/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel
deleted file mode 100644
index d5bfbcbe26..0000000000
--- a/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-"""Vendored patches applied on top of the bazel-orfs git_override pin.
-
-These are small fixes we keep here to reduce churn while iterating;
-when they land upstream, drop the entry from MODULE.bazel and bump
-BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT instead.
-"""
-
-exports_files(glob(["*.patch"]))

From 4a9daf3e71d15c76f5fcf7e92e1c756389b0fd0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 00:07:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 22/22] bazel: re-vendor render_gds PDK_CONFIGS fix (addon
 UnboundLocalError)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Bumping bazel-orfs to 3a5ddd7 picked up the upstream copy of our
layerstack-trim feature, but the upstream commit landed without the
PDK_CONFIGS monkey-patch fix that I added locally after upstream
sent the PR -- so the merged version still goes through the addon's
gdsii_use_custom_config=True path, which is broken:

  File ".../blendergds/__init__.py", line 613, in import_gdsii
    colorfile = addon_dir / pdk_info.get('color_path', ...) / ...
  UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'pdk_info'

The addon's import_gdsii skips initialising pdk_info / addon_dir in
the custom-config branch but uses them a few lines later for the
color_path lookup.  Vendor a one-hunk patch on render_gds.py that
monkey-patches addon.PDK_CONFIGS[pdk]['config_path'] instead, so the
addon's else branch fires normally.  Path's absolute-RHS semantic
makes `addon_dir / Path(abs_path)` evaluate to the absolute path,
so the trim YAML still resolves correctly.

Once a fix lands upstream (in bazel-orfs or in the BlenderGDS
addon's __init__.py), this can be dropped and bazel-orfs bumped
again -- the patches/ directory comes back if we need a vendored
fix in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind@ascenium.com>
Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
---
 MODULE.bazel                                  |  4 ++
 ..._CONFIGS-not-gdsii_use_custom_config.patch | 49 +++++++++++++++++++
 patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel                |  8 +++
 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/0001-render_gds-monkey-patch-PDK_CONFIGS-not-gdsii_use_custom_config.patch
 create mode 100644 patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel

diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 43959735bb..25f2382310 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE = "https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/bazel-orfs.git"
 git_override(
     module_name = "bazel-orfs",
     commit = BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT,
+    patch_strip = 1,
+    patches = [
+        "//patches/bazel-orfs:0001-render_gds-monkey-patch-PDK_CONFIGS-not-gdsii_use_custom_config.patch",
+    ],
     remote = BAZEL_ORFS_REMOTE,
 )
 
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-render_gds-monkey-patch-PDK_CONFIGS-not-gdsii_use_custom_config.patch b/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-render_gds-monkey-patch-PDK_CONFIGS-not-gdsii_use_custom_config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c67b99cffa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/0001-render_gds-monkey-patch-PDK_CONFIGS-not-gdsii_use_custom_config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From 0010e181efa28210dbf7839e6e6131139cc705bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=98yvind=20Harboe?= <oyvind@ascenium.com>
+Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 00:06:14 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] render_gds: monkey-patch PDK_CONFIGS instead of
+ gdsii_use_custom_config
+
+The addon's gdsii_use_custom_config=True branch in import_gdsii skips
+initialising pdk_info and addon_dir, both of which are still used a
+few lines later to resolve color_path -- so any non-default
+layerstack YAML trips UnboundLocalError inside the addon.
+
+Patch the addon's PDK_CONFIGS dict at runtime instead, pointing the
+selected PDK's config_path entry at our trimmed YAML.  The else
+branch then fires normally, pdk_info is set, color_path resolves,
+and Path's absolute-RHS semantic makes addon_dir / Path(abs_path)
+evaluate to the absolute path.
+---
+ tools/blendergds/render_gds.py | 12 ++++++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
+index cbe116c..b53da1e 100644
+--- a/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
++++ b/tools/blendergds/render_gds.py
+@@ -289,11 +289,19 @@ def main():
+         # in seconds rather than 5-7 minutes + 16 GB RSS.  No-op for
+         # PDKs without a preset and for designs whose full stack is
+         # already small enough.
++        # We can't go through the addon's `gdsii_use_custom_config = True`
++        # path: that branch in `import_gdsii` skips initialising
++        # `pdk_info` and `addon_dir`, both of which are still used
++        # afterwards to resolve `color_path` -- so a custom YAML trips
++        # `UnboundLocalError: pdk_info` inside the addon.  Instead,
++        # monkey-patch PDK_CONFIGS[pdk]['config_path'] to point at the
++        # trimmed YAML (absolute path -- `addon_dir / Path("/abs")`
++        # evaluates to the absolute path in pathlib, so the else branch
++        # in the addon picks it up correctly).
+         trimmed = _trim_layerstack(addon, addon_root, args.pdk, tmp)
+         if trimmed is not None:
+             yaml_path, kept_layers, missing = trimmed
+-            bpy.context.scene.gdsii_use_custom_config = True
+-            bpy.context.scene.gdsii_config_path = str(yaml_path)
++            addon.PDK_CONFIGS.setdefault(args.pdk, {})["config_path"] = str(yaml_path)
+             _log_phase(
+                 "layerstack-trimmed",
+                 extra=(
+-- 
+2.51.0
+
diff --git a/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel b/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5bfbcbe26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/bazel-orfs/BUILD.bazel
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+"""Vendored patches applied on top of the bazel-orfs git_override pin.
+
+These are small fixes we keep here to reduce churn while iterating;
+when they land upstream, drop the entry from MODULE.bazel and bump
+BAZEL_ORFS_COMMIT instead.
+"""
+
+exports_files(glob(["*.patch"]))