Suggested environments for kernel development
I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. What distro do you use and whats the process? I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. What distro do you use and whats the process?
I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.
Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it. good luck, greg k-h
On Sun, 3 May 2015, Greg KH wrote:
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. What distro do you use and whats the process?
I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.
Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it.
if you're going to just manually install the new kernel, then it makes precious little difference. on the other hand, if you really want to go through the packaging, then you can run one of: $ make rpm-pkg $ make deb-pkg other than that, as greg suggests, any even *remotely* current distro should work just fine. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
On May 3, 2015 1:44:28 PM EDT, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. What distro do you use and whats the process?
I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.
Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it.
good luck,
greg k-h
Greg is right here however since kernel development is generally bleeding edge I generally recommend Arch as the packages are pulled from upstream including gcc. Running the latest c library and tool chains is a high plus in kernel development in my opinion. Nick
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Hello Lewis,
I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. What distro do you use and whats the process?
I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.
I'm also using Debian. That is not true at all. The guide on the Kernel Newbies Website [1] works flawlessly. The only downside would be, that in case you decide to remove a build you have to delete the image, modules, etc. by hand and additionaly run update-grub whereas creating a package does that for you. [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Lewis Clark <lewis@lewmpk.uk> wrote:
I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. What distro do you use and whats the process?
I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.
You can use whatever distro you like. Anyhow, for rapidly booting kernels I use qemu :). Daniel.
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