Preferred setup for development?
I'm looking for information about what distributions people are using, and how they go about testing their code. The reason is, I'm running Ubuntu for my main distribution, and it seems like I'll have to go through a lot of hoops in order to compile and test changes to the kernel. I realize that I could probably just use the media_build tree, and add the changes there. But, I'd prefer to go the same route that the majority of the developers here do. So, my questions are these: 1. Do you use a specific distribution for development, or a roll your own (like Linux from Scratch)? 2. If you use a distribution, which one? 3. Do you do your development on physical computers or on virtual machines (or both)? 4. Do you have a machine that's dedicated to development, or is it one that you use for other things? 5. Do you use a newer computer, or older computer for development? (or both) For anyone using the media_build tree (instead of the media_git tree): Are you able to seamlessly implement changes that are in the media_git tree files to the media_build tree, or do you have to make changes in order to get them to compile? Are your files able to be implemented into the media_git tree seamlessly, or do you have to make changes to get them to compile? If you're able to use the media_build tree, and the changes you make can be implemented in the media_git tree without hassle, I may go that route instead. I downloaded a Slackware DVD, as it appears to be one that you can roll your own kernel without too much of a hassle. But, I want to get people's opinions before I start. Thanks to everyone who responds, and have a great day:) Patrick. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Preferred setup for development?
Hello Patrick, There are some information at: http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Patrick Dickey pdickeyb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for information about what distributions people are using, and how they go about testing their code. The reason is, I'm running Ubuntu for my main distribution, and it seems like I'll have to go through a lot of hoops in order to compile and test changes to the kernel. I realize that I could probably just use the media_build tree, and add the changes there. But, I'd prefer to go the same route that the majority of the developers here do. So, my questions are these: 1. Do you use a specific distribution for development, or a roll your own (like Linux from Scratch)? 2. If you use a distribution, which one? I like and use Fedora. 3. Do you do your development on physical computers or on virtual machines (or both)? Most on physical. I use VM for some testing. 4. Do you have a machine that's dedicated to development, or is it one that you use for other things? My notebook for everything. 5. Do you use a newer computer, or older computer for development? (or both) For anyone using the media_build tree (instead of the media_git tree): Are you able to seamlessly implement changes that are in the media_git tree files to the media_build tree, or do you have to make changes in order to get them to compile? Are your files able to be implemented into the media_git tree seamlessly, or do you have to make changes to get them to compile? If you're able to use the media_build tree, and the changes you make can be implemented in the media_git tree without hassle, I may go that route instead. I downloaded a Slackware DVD, as it appears to be one that you can roll your own kernel without too much of a hassle. But, I want to get people's opinions before I start. The key points for Fedora / Ubuntu / ... are: - how to generate the initrd for allowing you to book your custom Kernel - what Kernel options are needed for your distro to work I like to follow distro specific instructions for generate Kernel packages. This works for me for Fedora. I follow: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel Thanks to everyone who responds, and have a great day:) Patrick. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html []'s -- Peter Senna Tschudin peter.se...@gmail.com gpg id: 48274C36 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Preferred setup for development?
On Fri August 17 2012 13:50:25 Patrick Dickey wrote: I'm looking for information about what distributions people are using, and how they go about testing their code. The reason is, I'm running Ubuntu for my main distribution, and it seems like I'll have to go through a lot of hoops in order to compile and test changes to the kernel. I realize that I could probably just use the media_build tree, and add the changes there. But, I'd prefer to go the same route that the majority of the developers here do. So, my questions are these: 1. Do you use a specific distribution for development, or a roll your own (like Linux from Scratch)? I used LFS a long time ago. It's great to learn how a linux system is put together, but it takes way too much time to upgrade. I've used several distros in the past but I'm now running aptosid, which is a rolling Debian sid distro. But I do build my own kernel. 2. If you use a distribution, which one? 3. Do you do your development on physical computers or on virtual machines (or both)? Physical for the most part. 4. Do you have a machine that's dedicated to development, or is it one that you use for other things? Both. I use my main PC for development, but I also have more specialized PCs to test certain things. 5. Do you use a newer computer, or older computer for development? (or both) I tend to upgrade to something faster every so often :-) For anyone using the media_build tree (instead of the media_git tree): Are you able to seamlessly implement changes that are in the media_git tree files to the media_build tree, or do you have to make changes in order to get them to compile? Are your files able to be implemented into the media_git tree seamlessly, or do you have to make changes to get them to compile? If you have to make changes, let me know. It should be seamless. Occasionally things break with media_build if new code is merged in media-git, but I try to be on top of it. If you're able to use the media_build tree, and the changes you make can be implemented in the media_git tree without hassle, I may go that route instead. I downloaded a Slackware DVD, as it appears to be one that you can roll your own kernel without too much of a hassle. But, I want to get people's opinions before I start. Generally, building your own kernel isn't that hard. Figuring it out tends to be a one-time job. But if you just touch media drivers and do not intend to do any work elsewhere in the kernel, then media_build should work well. Regards, Hans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
