From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264383AbTDKPDt (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:03:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264384AbTDKPDt (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:03:49 -0400 Received: from c17870.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:54749 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264383AbTDKPDs (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:03:48 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Vikram Rangnekar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel hcking Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:17:10 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030411170709.A33459@freebsdcluster.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030411170709.A33459@freebsdcluster.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304120117.10680.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:07, Vikram Rangnekar wrote: > I'm a kernel newbie and just wanted to know what do most kernel hackers do > when working on the kernel say 2.5 when you make changes do u need to > recompile the kernel and reboot the machine to test your small modification > or do people use something like bochs. Also every time you makes changes in > the kernel it must be hell to recompile the whole thing do kernel hackers > just compile the specific file and link it into the kernel or something. > Some of these will be stupid questions to most of you but I am curious > since I've been working on the kernel lately and recompiling and rebooting > is driving me nuts Try cc cache http://ccache.samba.org Con