Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:54:54 +0200 From: Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to do FreeBSD kernel/userland development on OSX ? Message-ID: <FF1E784C-24A2-4793-8000-29611AD13B5C@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > i recently replaced my laptop with a mac, which opens the problem on > how do i do FreeBSD development (including kernel work) on it. > > the option i am trying now is running a freebsd VM in virtualbox, > but it is slightly slow and probably energy hungry. > > I'd like to keep the svn checkut outside the disk image but > unfortunately the default filesystem on osx is case-insensitive > so i can't do that -- unless someone shows me how to change > the filesystem conventions. According to some email threads this is not a smart option as it might screw up some applications which assume that FS is case-insensitive. I shrink my 1st partition and created 2nd one which is case sensitive. i'm using it for cross-compiling FreeBSD/ARM kernel. Damjan
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