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Martijn Braam

Writing kernel drivers is fun, I've never had to reboot my machine this often while programming...

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@martijnbraam Yeah, well. Real fun begins when you start to corrupt memory and thus filesystem :-).
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thomas@metalhead.club

Tom damnified

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@martijnbraam I've always wondered: How to people do Kernel development? Sure, you can use virtual machines to some degree, but sometimes you need real hardware. Isn't it a pain in the a** to do this kind of development?

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martijnbraam@fosstodon.org

Martijn Braam

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@thomas it depends on what driver you're working on I guess. Some stuff just doesn't really work with virtual machines.

you get there most of the way with modprobe/rmmod but if you cause the wrong errors in the kernel it's rebooting time anyway.

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