Setting up a small Sphinx project for validating Linux kernel documentation RST markup

Introduction Since I maintain a module in the Linux kernel, I also need to maintain its documentation. Sometime in the past, the rst format was adopted for files under Documentation/ in the kernel tree, with Sphinx chosen as the tool for making formatted documents. Which is pretty nice, as rst human readable and can also [...]

Running Xilinx Impact on Linux Mint 19

Introduction This is my short war story as I made Xilinx’ Impact, part of ISE 14.7, work on a Linux Mint 19 machine with a v4.15 Linux kernel. I should mention that I already use Vivado on the same machine, so the whole JTAG programming thing was already sorted out, including loading firmware into the [...]