Re: kernel hcking

[Con Kolivas]

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
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Con