From 81f10d199813bebe735ca201741c117990e67770 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:07:43 -0300 Subject: Documentation/Changes: add minimal requirements for documentation build As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest version found on some distros like Debian. All books currently support it. Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal requirement, as one could just be interested on building html documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities. While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/Changes | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index a9f365d864c7..93c8e1c15844 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Intro ===== This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of -software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels. +software necessary to run the 4.x kernels. This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch, @@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ mcelog 0.6 mcelog --version iptables 1.4.2 iptables -V openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 openssl version bc 1.06.95 bc --version +Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.2 sphinx-build --version ====================== =============== ======================================== +.. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation Kernel compilation ****************** @@ -307,6 +309,30 @@ On x86 kernels the mcelog utility is needed to process and log machine check events when ``CONFIG_X86_MCE`` is enabled. Machine check events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. +Kernel documentation +******************** + +Sphinx +------ + +The ReST markups currently used by the Documentation/ files are meant to be +built with ``Sphinx`` version 1.2 or upper. If you're desiring to build +PDF outputs, it is recommended to use version 1.4.6. + +.. note:: + + Please notice that, for PDF and LaTeX output, you'll also need ``XeLaTeX`` + version 3.14159265. Depending on the distribution, you may also need + to install a series of ``texlive`` packages that provide the minimal + set of functionalities required for ``XeLaTex`` to work. + +Other tools +----------- + +In order to produce documentation from DocBook, you'll also need ``xmlto``. +Please notice, however, that we're currently migrating all documents to use +``Sphinx``. + Getting updated software ======================== @@ -453,3 +479,11 @@ NFS-Utils --------- - + +Kernel documentation +******************** + +Sphinx +------ + +- -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b