From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 13 19:05:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA18171 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA18154 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA11038; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:35:00 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610140205.LAA11038@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Setting Up a Kernel Hacking Machine To: chiuk@cs.indiana.edu (Kenneth Chiu) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:34:58 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610122011.PAA18989@moose.cs.indiana.edu> from "Kenneth Chiu" at Oct 12, 96 03:11:37 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kenneth Chiu stands accused of saying: > > I'm interested in hacking some on the kernel, maybe work on a driver. > What's the recommended way to set up a single machine for this? Install the most recent -SNAP, make sure you have plenty of space on /var for kernel crash dumps. > I'm thinking along the lines of a set of partitions for running > 2.1.5-RELEASE that I would use for development, and a single partition > with -current or maybe -SNAP that I would use for testing. As a general rule, -current is stable enough for development. If you lurk on the -current list and avoid building new kernels for a day or so after people like John make major changes, it's actually very good. > So I would build from the 2.1.5 system into the -current partition, and > then reboot to the -current partition to test. Does this sound > workable? It could be done, but it would be a lot of (wasted IMHO) effort. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[