On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Aiolia Lea <casmyu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, rday > > Perfect job~~ It is really a nice course! > > And I have a little comments, consider this scenario: > > As a kernel beginner (like me), sometimes, I just want to rebuild part of > the kernel, reather than the whole kernel tree. How could we do? Such as, we > just modified one line of code or one function, do we still need to rebuild > the whole kernel? After all, rebuild the whole kernel will cost more times. > > Could you add some kernel development environment setup topics for the > above scenario. To be honsest, I am really want to know, the engineer in > redhat, suse, how does he do in the reallife development? If he focus on one > feature, such as MM or scheduler, does he also need to recompile the whole > kernel when he make a little change? Especially he just want to clarify a > little idea. The kernel build process takes care of this. The compilation is done for the files and modules affected. I am a bit out of touch to say more because the linking process and the symbols might require the last stage of building to be redone completely. I have done quite some work on kernel building and configuration but still confused with initrd and initramfs even after going through the docs some few months back. Now I need to do some work on initrd. If someone can give me some hints and pointers on how a custom initrd can be supported with the kernel of interest then it will be appreciated. I'll be googling it after a while too :) Lets see what others have to say. -- Shaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
