Re: Newbie Kernel Programmer looking for first project.

["Michael Litchard" <michael%schmong.org@localhost>]

hmm, the only references I can find on how to cross-compile are
daemonews ezine articles, and for whatever reason, I cannot rend those
pages. Does anyone have a mirror to those files or pointers to similar
docs?
On 6/30/08, Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>  On 30-Jun-2008 Michael Litchard wrote:
>
> > I intend to use a xen DomU for this.
>  > Can I compile -current in a 4.0 enviroment? Is this a cross-compilation
>  > thing?
>  > maybe it would be more appropriate to move to -current on my Dom0.
>  >
>
>
> Yes, you can install 4.0, and then cross compile -current. The build.sh
>  script/machinery makes this very simple to do.  This is probably the ideal 
> way
>  to do it, so that your work machine is nice and stable, and then you just 
> boot
>  the -current kernels to test them occasionally.  perhaps you can make an
>  additional xen domain to test boot the kernels on.
>
>
>  ---
>  Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>
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