There’s a lot of posts and references about submitting patches to the Linux kernel or projects that receive patches in file/email format. The idea here is to have a quick guide about the basic commands to get things done. Workflow First checkout the working tree. For Linux it’s usually the stable…

This post is a guide on getting up-and-running with the SolidRun LX2K based boards installing the Firmware and Linux. The HoneyComb/ClearFog system are the carrier boards (the difference is that the ClearFog has a QSFP28 module) and both use a beefy ARM SOM (System On a Module) based on the…

In this post I’ll explore a bit the Open Source toolchain for Xilinx Series 7 FPGAs and will focus the Artix 7. The post will detail how to run the complete flow using Docker containers avoiding local toolchain installs and homogenizing the process for most platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).

This post originated from a live-tweed. The thread can be seen at https://twitter.com/carlosedp/status/1382057618114494465. I'll show here how to add support for a new board, the Digilent ArtyA7, a very popular FPGA board based on Xilinx Artix7, to my Chisel ChiselBlinky project including FuseSoc support. Chisel is an HDL (Hardware Design…

Much is being talked about the latest vulnerability mitigations on L1 cache for IBM POWER processors addressed in CVE-2020–4788. Update on 23/11: This post has been updated to address Pgbench tests that provides more realistic numbers related to the CVE and mitigations. Check the PGbench section below. The intent of…

As a follow-up post to my previous post about adding authentication transparently to an application Configuring Keycloak Go to the left-side menu item “Client Scopes” and click “Create”: Create a new client scope called “api” with default settings, then click the “Mappers” tab to add the field mappings to this scope. In…

In this post, I'll go thru the process of running Virtual Machines on OpenShift Virtualization in a nested setup inside VMware vSphere. This requires both ESXi hosts and a VCenter, both on 6.7U3 or up. Nested virtualization is a configuration where the Virtual Machine running the OpenShift Node on ESXi…

I recently received a NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX board to review and write some posts. The first one is an unofficial guide to upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to latest Ubuntu Focal (20.04). Here I will do some benchmarks and compare the performance between the Jetson NX and other SBCs. A while…

I recently received a NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX unit to review and write about some use cases like a local development computer and cloud application deployments with containers in a Kubernetes cluster. In this post I’ll talk about upgrading it to latest Ubuntu version that is nice for a local…