Re: Kernel Development Tutorial
- From: Nick Hardiman <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rumpkernel-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 08:29:35 +0000
What’s the URL? I see two
http://wiki.netbsd.org/rumpkernel/ <http://wiki.netbsd.org/rumpkernel/>
https://github.com/rumpkernel/wiki/wiki
<https://github.com/rumpkernel/wiki/wiki>
> On 5 Mar 2015, at 21:07, Robert Gifford <robertgif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I went ahead and edited the wiki.
>
> Robert
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Robert Gifford <robertgif@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:robertgif@xxxxxxxxx>> 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 <robertgif@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:robertgif@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response! I'll check it out and I'll let you know if I
> have any other questions.
>
> Robert
>
>
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>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Antti Kantee <pooka@xxxxxx <mailto:pooka@xxxxxx>>
> Date:02/26/2015 6:18 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: robertgif@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:robertgif@xxxxxxxxx>,
> rumpkernel-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rumpkernel-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>
>
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