Choosing the right environment

Philipp Muhoray <philipp.muhoray@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:41:36 +0100



    Hello there,

    
    After reading LDD
      and LKD, I feel ready to start some actual kernel hacking.
      Therefore I wanted to ask you what environment I should use in the
      beginning. I have several options, but I'm not sure on which one
      to set up my workspace:
    

      - I could develop
      directly on and against my main machines (desktop/laptop) – This
      is probably
      not a good idea, since they are used in „production“ and I don't
      want to mess things up there

    
    - I could go with a
      virtual machine on one of my main machines – But I'm not quite
      sure
      whether the hardware-abstraction will give me troubles when
      hacking on hardware drivers (which I want to start with)
    - I could also use
      my Raspberry Pi – I'm only afraid that the slightly different
      environment (SD card instead of hard disk, ARM instead of x86,
      limited I/O) could turn out to be a larger obstacle than I thought
    - I have some
      pretty
      old stand alone desktops which I could use – But the hardware is
      so
      old (2004ish)
    

    I think my
      preference is the Raspberry Pi, because I would work on actual
      modern
      hardware without worrying about messing things up. Are there some
      drawbacks I'm not considering? Or am I just overthinking this?
      What did you use in the beginning?

    
      Best regards,
    Philipp
    
    
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