From: Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>
To: "Ksenija Stanojević" <ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Some general questions
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:39:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150330213914.GA2531@waves> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL7P5jJy92+U3dgcVOzNS0OZZZFn=5pv-aHPwEDYiR+iSJ31-w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:55:06PM +0200, Ksenija Stanojević wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Aya Mahfouz
> <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I had a couple of questions lingering in my head for quite some time
> > now. I'm reading lots of articles but I'm interested in people sharing
> > their experiences as answers to the following questions:
> >
> > Is it possible to setup a simple cloud-based compile farm? Are there
> > guides or projects that would help with that? My question comes after
> > seeing Fengguang Wu's kbuild testing farm reports.
> >
> > From experience, how do you usually debug new drivers? What tools do you
> > use?
>
> I used nm tool and addr2line.
>
Nice! I did not try addr2line before...
> >What do you think of tools like kgdb and kdb? What do you do for
> > example if testing a driver freezes the computer it is running
> > on.
> >
> I rebooted it by force, by pressing power button.
>
Yeah... This is what I do in most cases. If I'm lucky enough, I switch
quickly to another screen and log in as root then kill the process...
> Ksenija
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Kind Regards,
> > Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
> >
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Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-30 18:40 Some general questions Aya Mahfouz
2015-03-30 18:55 ` [Outreachy kernel] " Ksenija Stanojević
2015-03-30 21:39 ` Aya Mahfouz [this message]
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