Kernel Development

[coolsandie]

Lets discuss about kernel development folks!

Experienced Developers are welcome!

As a start here's CyanogenMod's Tutorial on Building Kernel from source :
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Building_Kernel_from_source

[coolsandie]

I'm really confused in setting up a building environment whether to go for Linux Ubuntu 32-bit or 64-bit OS !!

For ROMs, for getting properly compiled 64-bit is recommended by most developers and also Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04 is also recommended. Ubuntu 11.10 has some issues regarding the updated version of GNU C Compiler.

About Kernels, I'm still confused. 

[Jonny]

I would go for the 64 bit OS as for ICS kernels (linux kernel 3) I think they require a 64 bit OS to compile properly

[coolsandie]

I would go for the 64 bit OS as for ICS kernels (linux kernel 3) I think they require a 64 bit OS to compile properly

Hmm, the problem is Android is not the prime target. I need to use Java+Tomcat+Mysql as a part of my project, don't know whether Tomcat and Mysql performs well in 64-bit OS. Also heard Java performs slower in 64-bit compared to 32-bit, not sure though.