Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:37:11 +0200 | From | Antonio Vargas <> | Subject | Re: kernel hcking |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:24:37PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > > I'm a kernel newbie and just wanted to know what do most kernel hackers do > > when working on the kernel say 2.5 when you make changes do u need to > > recompile the kernel and reboot the machine to test your small modification > > or do people use something like bochs. > > A lot of developers have multiple physical machines, which makes > testing various different kernels a lot easier. > > > Also every time you makes changes in the kernel it must be hell to > > recompile the whole thing > > If you are testing kernels on a separate machine to the one you are > compiling on, and therefore not rebooting, it's not much of a problem > - with enough RAM, most or all of the kernel source will be cached, > and you can compile a kernel in three to five minutes on a fast > machine.
John, you mean a "make clean && make bzImage" takes you only about 4 minutes??? I would like to know more details about .config, machine specs, compiler and so on :)
And no doubt having enough RAM to cache all the tree is really good :)
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