On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:50 PM, walkerlala <ablacktshirt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone. > I am just reading the kernel code, adding some code to make it > pause and print some text and then interact with it a little bit. I have > compile the kernel successfully and run the kernel in QEMU. It did > work.Nice. > But, when I reading the source, I found that there are just too > many files there, which make it hard for me to manage. With so many > files, It's hard to change directories, read and modified and still > remember what you are doing (so many files with the same/similar name). > I know that's because Linux support many architectures, and that 's > the reason why there are so many folders under the 'arch' directory of > the source code. > So, I wonder, as I only want the source for x86 device, can I > simply remove that source files which are unrelated to x86 and still > make the kernel work as normal? I mean, can I just remove all the > directory under 'arch' except 'x86-64' ? Also, are there any other files > that I can safely removed and won't hurt the kernel ? > Thanks in advance. > (btw, I don't know whether this question is asked before. I google > it but find nothing related. If it's duplicated, please give me some > pointer to the mailing list where this topic located ) Navigate with cscope only on one architecture: make ARCH=arm cscope -- Carlo Caione _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
