On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Stephen Roberts
<sroberts82k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm interested to hear about your development environments. Do you use a
> seperate PC to your development one for to use for testing your kernel? Or
> is the work you are doing high enough level to be stable enough to run your
> new kernel on your development machine? My main interest is turnaround time
> - ie. from compiling my kernel to seeing your debug out over serial or in a
> logfile - to minimise this.
Well it depends on what your goal is.
If you want to run new kernels and no low level real hardware
interaction, you can always run your test kernels in a VM.
As far as serial logging is concerned I use VMware Workstation 6.5.1.
It is certainly fun to control a guest kernel from a Linux host.
Also I avoid compiling kernels in guest OS. Simply compile on host and
then scp/copy the kernel+initrd+/lib/modules/$(kernel_version) to the
guest os, taking care of the links.
But if you have a PC to spare ... bring it on! :-).
Try to keep your dev and test machine separate if not physically
atleast logically in a VM. You ll save a lot of time.
HTH
Cu,
--Pradeep
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
--
Pradeep
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