Subject: Re: kernel debug
To: Jens Gran <jensgran@gmail.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/04/2005 11:25:16
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:20:51PM +0000, Jens Gran wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I want to make some changes in netbsd kernel,
> and I wonder if is there some well known technique 
> to make debug of kernel more easy?
> 
> May be use an emulator of computer 
> like qemu, vmware or xen? are there some howto about this?( I mean
> debug and develop NetBSD using emulator).

If ypur changes don't touch hardware driver, I'd say go with Xen.
Or find a real hardware with proper netbooting and serial console
support (like a Sun sparc or sparc64, alpha, ...)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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