From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: philipp.muhoray@gmail.com (Philipp Muhoray) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:24:53 +0100 Subject: Choosing the right environment In-Reply-To: <48803.1416325011@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <5454F120.2050002@gmail.com> <48803.1416325011@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: <546B72D5.9060900@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Am 2014-11-18 um 16:36 schrieb Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:54:05 +0530, somebody said: >>> - I could go with a virtual machine on one of my main machines ??? But I'm not >>> quite sure whether the hardware-abstraction will give me troubles when >>> hacking on hardware drivers (which I want to start with) > If you're hacking at hardware drivers, you *hopefully* have the hardware > to test with. At that point, the *biggest* question is "What does that > hardware plug into?". If it's a USB device, you have lots of options for > the host hardware. If it's a PCI card, you need a system that has PCI > slots. If you're hacking on the Raspberri Pi camera driver, you're kind of > going to need a Pi. And so on.... Actually I wanted to hack on hardware I don't have so that you guys could test it, but your idea seems good as well. Just kidding, of course I'll check first what HW I have laying around; then I play with it. By now I'm developing in VirtualBox, doing the Eudyptula challenge. I think it's the most convenient option so far. And thanks for answering me. I almost thought my question was too stupid/naive to be answered.