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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Hello there,<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">After reading LDD
and LKD, I feel ready to start some actual kernel hacking.
Therefore I wanted to ask you what environment I should use in the
beginning. I have several options, but I'm not sure on which one
to set up my workspace:</p>
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- I could develop
directly on and against my main machines (desktop/laptop) – This
is probably
not a good idea, since they are used in „production“ and I don't
want to mess things up there<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">- I could go with a
virtual machine on one of my main machines – But I'm not quite
sure
whether the hardware-abstraction will give me troubles when
hacking on hardware drivers (which I want to start with)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">- I could also use
my Raspberry Pi – I'm only afraid that the slightly different
environment (SD card instead of hard disk, ARM instead of x86,
limited I/O) could turn out to be a larger obstacle than I thought</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">- I have some
pretty
old stand alone desktops which I could use – But the hardware is
so
old (2004ish)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">I think my
preference is the Raspberry Pi, because I would work on actual
modern
hardware without worrying about messing things up. Are there some
drawbacks I'm not considering? Or am I just overthinking this?
What did you use in the beginning?<br>
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Best regards,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Philipp</p>
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