Virtual machine query

Dave Hylands dhylands at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 12:53:48 EST 2012


Hi Manish,

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM, manish honap
<manish_honap_vit at 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



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