Re: Development Setups

[Andrew Ebling <kernelhacker@lineone.net>]

> I was thinking of starting with a modern machine for developing/compiling on, 
> and then older machine(s) for testing.  This way I would not risk losing data 
> if I oops or somesuch.  Alternately, is there a common practice of using lilo 
> to create development and testing kernel command lines?  Is this a useful 
> thing to do or is it too much of brain drain to switch between hacking and 
> testing mindsets?

I like the two box strategy and have written a detailed description of
how to set it up (right down to the wiring diagram for the serial
cables):

http://www.kernelhacking.org/docs/2boxdebugging.txt

This will become part of the forthcoming kernelhacking-HOWTO...

Feedback on this document from anyone would be very much appreciated
from anyone :)

happy hacking,

Andy