> 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.
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