During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ? e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc. or whether they use physical machines ? Cheers, Manish
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, manish honap <manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ? e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc. or whether they use physical machines ?
Cheers, Manish
I would recommend a solution like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox because it's the closest thing to a real machine as possible. And the big plus of these solutions are the Snapshots that are really useful when you risk having kernel panics and have to restart a lot. Just my $0.02 -- Alexandru Juncu ROSEdu
Hi Manish, On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM, manish honap <manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ? e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc. or whether they use physical machines ?
I work on ARM based systems so I cross-compile and use a physical board. I tend to develop drivers as modules, so that if it crashes , I can reboot the board and things stay sane. When I'm working on stuff that isn't a driver and can't be in a module, then u-boot (the bootloader) is my friend. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Manish,
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM, manish honap <manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ? e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc. or whether they use physical machines ?
I work on ARM based systems so I cross-compile and use a physical board. If i may ask which ARM based board you prefer?
I tend to develop drivers as modules, so that if it crashes , I can reboot the board and things stay sane.
When I'm working on stuff that isn't a driver and can't be in a module, then u-boot (the bootloader) is my friend.
-- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com
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