One piece of advice from my experience is, if you are doing programming - Do use emulator. Following is some part from my blog, I hope that will help you:
This time I decided to use emulator. My main interest is in coding
rather than wasting time in installation on real hardware. So I first
tried Bochs. And had trouble getting right versions of the kernel and
patches that were required to install pistachio. Also the guy had
incomplete tutorial, so couldn't figure out what to do after compiling
the kernel. Here is the link:
http://home.kamp.net/home/farid.hajji/l4ka-bochs/
Then I heard of QEMU.
http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/QemuImageForL4
The
page tells how to install HURD and L4 on QEMU. But I was only
interested in L4. So I only downloaded the pistachio demodisk from
l4ka.org and ran it with QEMU:
$ qemu -dummy-net -serial stdio -fda pistachio-ia32-0.4-demodisk.bin -boot aAnd it just booted the qemu into pistachio for me. That's amazing. But the coolest thing is yet to come.
Hi,
I am interested in developing small Real Time OS on
top the L4. But, I am a beginer in L4. I've
successfully installed L4Ka::Pistachio on P4 machine.
Now i want to practice L4 programming. To do that,
which platform i want to use. i mean, is it possible
to work on Redhat Linux and test it in the
L4Ka::Pistachio or i want to go for any other
enviornment on L4.
Since I am a beginer, Could anybody please help me by
giving some idea. then i able to start working on L4.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Thayapararajh.
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