Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado

Trust is hard to gain, but easy to lose.

My read is that there really is some huge opportunity but only if companies are at all willing to tune in to Open Source toolchains &

There's interesting times with XDNA NPUs being modest sized on-chip programmable FPGA, that AMD has had to spend huge time just starting to figure out their own bespoke solutions for, on Windows and Linux. Lots of kernel & talking to the dogs work at amdxdna, https://www.phoronix.com/search/AMDXDNA then mlir-air mostly for targeting the fpga; https://github.com/Xilinx/mlir-air mostly, with for example https://github.com/amd/Triton-XDNA

Because AMD (formerly Xilinx) does not provide complete technical documentation for their FPGAs, the only way for using the products that you buy from AMD is that "freeware".

Therefore that is not "freeware", but an indispensable component of what AMD sells and advertises as "field-programmable" and customers buy from them.

Calling it "free" or "freeware" is either a shameless attempt to obfuscate what it really is or a demonstration of incompetence of the people at AMD, who fail to understand what they are selling.

Based on the previous notice from AMD, I had just canceled buying some AMD Kria modules. With this change, I will reluctantly go ahead, but I worry about being dependent of a company that may make their products unusable with this kind of decisions.