From: pjd@fred001.dynip.com
To: cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com (chiranjeevi vaka)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need Suggestion(modifying kernel source)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:23:01 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203051523.g25FN2j02633@fred.cambridge.ma.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020304212315.89890.qmail@web21305.mail.yahoo.com> from "chiranjeevi vaka" at Mar 04, 2002 01:23:15 PM
chiranjeevi vaka wrote:
>
> The major problem I am getting is, as and when I do a
> small change, to test that change, I have to compile
> the whole kernel make boot floppy and reboot the
> kernel with that floppy and test the code. This way is
> takinbg too much time. I donno how linux kernel
> developers will make changes to kernel and test them.
A possibility that no one has mentioned is to have a diskless
target machine, booting with TFTP and using an NFS root filesystem.
Boot NILO (www.nilo.org) on a floppy, and configure it to load
the kernel off a TFTP server, which would also be the machine you
compile and run kgdb on.
One advantage is that no matter how badly you crash the target
machine you won't corrupt the filesystem.
............................................................................
Peter Desnoyers
162 Pleasant St. (617) 661-1979 pjd@fred.cambridge.ma.us
Cambridge, Mass. 02139
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-05 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-04 21:23 chiranjeevi vaka
2002-03-04 21:44 ` Vincent Bernat
2002-03-04 21:53 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-04 22:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 15:23 ` pjd [this message]
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