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qemu-char Abstraction
Thu, 16 Apr 2009
A simulated serial peripheral is generally attached to an external interface, that will act as source for receiving data and sink for trasmitted data. This article describes the internal design of Qemu, that helps to simplify the work for people writing simulations for serial peripherals.
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AsciiDoc with PyBlosxom
Thu, 16 Apr 2009
There are several tools that convert short text documents with wiki-like markup to HTML, PDF and other document formats. One such tool called AsciiDoc has been my favourite for a long time. PyBlosxom has plugins for light-weight markup languages like reStructured Text and Textile, but not for AsciiDoc. Now that I have chosen PyBlosxom as my blogging tool, I thought it might be a nice to add AsciiDoc support to PyBlosxom.
It turned out that writing a plugin for AsciiDoc is not that hard after all, thanks to the asciidocapi introduced in AsciiDoc 8.4.1. Here is a minimal AsciiDoc plugin.
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Check Patches with Quilt
Thu, 16 Apr 2009
Linux kernel developers adhere to a coding style, documented in Documentation/CodingStyle. Patches submitted to the Linux kernel, should comply with the style. The kernel tree has a Perl script scripts/checkpatch.pl that can be used for checking style violations. People who use quilt to manage their patches might find it convenient if the style checking facility is built to quilt. So for example to check the topmost patch, one would just do
It turns out this is not hard after all.
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