Some general questions

Some general questions

[Aya Mahfouz]

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? 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.

Thanks,

-- 
Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz

Re: [Outreachy kernel] Some general questions

[Ksenija Stanojević]

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.

>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.

Ksenija

> Thanks,
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
>
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Re: [Outreachy kernel] Some general questions

[Aya Mahfouz]

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