On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:36 PM, shubham k <skaushal.lk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I a novice & want to contribute to linux community. I have basic knowledge > of kernel. > > Problem statement: > I want to work on x86 architecture. I am not sure how to go about unit > testing. I can use qemu for testing but i find kernel on x86 architecture > too big to compile. How i can get the smaller size kernel on x86 > architecture? Please help me setting up testing environment so that i can > test my changes properly & quickly. Hi, I once turn off all of the unnecessary options in .config and the kernel can be compiled within three minutes. But I also remove USB,Networking,video, and mouse drivers, so the newer kernel is very tiny and it's useless except debugging. Besides, I use bochs and gdb to debug kernel source and it's very convenient. Recently, I find DDD is an awesome debugger, so I highly recommend it. Good Luck. Hao Lee _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
