Mike McCarty wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > [...] > >> I thought i'd read, several years ago, that there is a way of running >> the kernel in one of the debuggers like 'gdb'. There has to be something >> better then having to re-boot for each test. :-) > > There is some low level debugging available, but it isn't as nice as > gdb. One technique some have used successfully is to use UML and run > the kernel as a more or less ordinary process.
I got the reboot process down to a couple of minutes. My test machine is pretty fast, so a reboot that succeeds only takes about 30 seconds. A failure requires a reset and POST so that takes a minute or so. >> I'm still concerned about using gcc-4.5.0 to build my > IMO, gcc 4.x is not quite "there" yet. I have considered reverting -dev to gcc-4.4.4. AFAIK, there haven't been the significant problems reported with the 4.4.x series. I've done a lot of testing, but I've been holding off a bit lately to let gcc development mature. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
