Suggested environments for kernel development

Suggested environments for kernel development

[Lewis Clark]

I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. 
What distro do you use and whats the process?

I?m very comfortable with debian, but i?ve heard it?s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.

Suggested environments for kernel development

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
> I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. 
> What distro do you use and whats the process?
> 
> I?m very comfortable with debian, but i?ve heard it?s not the easiest
> distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply
> it that way.

Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel
development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it.

good luck,

greg k-h

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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 3 May 2015, Greg KH wrote:

> On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
> > I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development.
> > What distro do you use and whats the process?
> >
> > I?m very comfortable with debian, but i?ve heard it?s not the easiest
> > distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply
> > it that way.
>
> Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel
> development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it.

  if you're going to just manually install the new kernel, then it
makes precious little difference. on the other hand, if you really
want to go through the packaging, then you can run one of:

  $ make rpm-pkg
  $ make deb-pkg

other than that, as greg suggests, any even *remotely* current distro
should work just fine.

rday

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[Nicholas Krause]

On May 3, 2015 1:44:28 PM EDT, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
>> I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. 
>> What distro do you use and whats the process?
>> 
>> I?m very comfortable with debian, but i?ve heard it?s not the easiest
>> distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply
>> it that way.
>
>Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel
>development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it.
>
>good luck,
>
>greg k-h
>
>
Greg is right here however since kernel development is generally bleeding edge I generally recommend Arch as the packages are pulled from upstream including gcc.  Running the latest c library and tool chains is a high plus in kernel development in my opinion. 
Nick 
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[Kernel Apprentice]

Hello Lewis,

> I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. 
> What distro do you use and whats the process?
> 
> I?m very comfortable with debian, but i?ve heard it?s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.

I'm also using Debian. That is not true at all. The guide on the Kernel
Newbies Website [1] works flawlessly. The only downside would be, that
in case you decide to remove a build you have to delete the image,
modules, etc. by hand and additionaly run update-grub whereas creating a
package does that for you.

[1] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild

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[Daniel Baluta]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Lewis Clark <lewis@lewmpk.uk> wrote:
> I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development.
> What distro do you use and whats the process?
>
> I?m very comfortable with debian, but i?ve heard it?s not the easiest distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply it that way.

You can use whatever distro you like. Anyhow, for rapidly booting
kernels I use qemu :).

Daniel.