I went ahead and edited the wiki. Robert
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Robert Gifford <[email protected]> wrote: > Antti, > > I was able to get through the tutorial fine without needing a separate > buildrump. I can edit the wiki in a bit if you want, but I'm going to keep > playing around with it for a bit, just to make sure. > > Thanks, > Robert > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Robert Gifford <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick response! I'll check it out and I'll let you know if >> I have any other questions. >> >> Robert >> >> >> Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Antti Kantee <[email protected]> >> Date:02/26/2015 6:18 PM (GMT-05:00) >> To: [email protected], [email protected] >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: Kernel Development Tutorial >> >> On 26/02/15 21:56, Robert Gifford wrote: >> > Good Evening >> > >> > I had a question concerning the Kernel Development tutorial on the >> > rumpkernel wiki. I was curious as to why the tutorial has you download >> both >> > rumprun_posix and buildrump.sh as two separate directories? If >> > rumprun_posix comes with its own buildrump.sh, why can't I just use that >> > buildrump to edit my kernel driver source code? >> >> Robert, >> >> Good question, but my answer is better: I don't remember. >> >> There are 3 possible explanations: >> >> 1) I wasn't thinking when I wrote that tutorial. For such a glaring >> thing, it's unlikely I wasn't thinking *that* much (though possible). >> 2) The way buildrump.sh *was* run from rumprun-posix was not compatible >> with carrying out the tutorial >> 3) The way buildrump.sh *is* run from rumprun-posix is not compatible >> with carrying out the tutorial >> >> If you think that a separate buildrump.sh is not necessary -- and I'm >> not saying you are wrong -- the best thing is to try it out. The worst >> that can happen is that you have to rm -rf the repo and start from >> scratch. >> >> If you can complete the tutorial, you can edit the wiki page and remove >> the separate buildrump.sh bit. If not, you can edit the wiki and add a >> short explanation of why you need both. Everyone wins ;) >> >> - antti >> > >
