Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Development Setups | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:22:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I was thinking of starting with a modern machine for developing/compiling on, > and then older machine(s) for testing. This way I would not risk losing data
That is how I work. One box editing/building and one testing. It also allows you to stare at dumps, oopses and things as well as the source at the same time.
> Instead of having separate machines, there is the possibility of using the > Usermode port. As I understand it this lags behind the -ac and linus kernels > so it would be hard to test things like the new VM's. Usermode would not be
Usermode Linux is merged with the -ac tree - it is great if you want to do non device driver hardware work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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