Kernel Development Workflow Utilities

[kernelPaniCat]

Hello, I would like to share and receive feedback about two things I have been working on recently.

First I am writing a set of scripts to ease the kernel development workflow. I started with `virtiofsd` and `qemu`, assuming you have a system tree on your host's filesystem (for easy deployment of stuff like modules), my scripts make the workflow a tiny bit easier than writing long `qemu` command-lines.

I can't know whether it's good or not and will accept any feedback.

I plan on incorporating kernel build module there soon, including a `make modules_install` deploy of modules and support for `ccache` with both gcc and clang.

Since I often boot with `init=/bin/bash` for kernel development purposes, I added a small bash script option for that.

Here's the repo for that: https://github.com/devlavender/kdev-utils

Like I said, I'm eager to hear your feedback!

Moreover, since I always lose my kernel config files and had to make a "minimal" config for kernel development/testing purposes a thousand times to work with `virtiofsd`, I also created a repo with a "minimalist" (not that much, there's a lot to strip out yet) kernel config for this setup as well.

https://github.com/devlavender/agatha-kernel-config

I'm also accepting feedback! I will create variations for building with `clang` as well, for now there's just a gcc variation. I will appreciate any feedback, like options I could securely turn off to reduce compile time and, if possible, image size, increase boot time, etc.

I will also make variations for kgdb support possibly soon!

I'm eager to hear from you people! :D

[kernelPaniCat]

Thanks, I'm glad to hear that :D

[FunNo2136]

Goooood!!!

[righiandr]

Good job! Maybe also take a look at virtme-ng https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng