Am 2014-11-18 um 16:36 schrieb Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:54:05 +0530, somebody said:
- 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) If you're hacking at hardware drivers, you *hopefully* have the hardware to test with. At that point, the *biggest* question is "What does that hardware plug into?". If it's a USB device, you have lots of options for the host hardware. If it's a PCI card, you need a system that has PCI slots. If you're hacking on the Raspberri Pi camera driver, you're kind of going to need a Pi. And so on....
Actually I wanted to hack on hardware I don't have so that you guys could test it, but your idea seems good as well. Just kidding, of course I'll check first what HW I have laying around; then I play with it. By now I'm developing in VirtualBox, doing the Eudyptula challenge. I think it's the most convenient option so far. And thanks for answering me. I almost thought my question was too stupid/naive to be answered.