02-11-2009
building a kernel (with a twist)
Hey all,
I am working on a static analysis tool and I wan't to see if it can find bugs in the linux kernel, it uses LLVM framework to analyse the instructions.
Long story short I need to build the kernel with a custom compiler. The compiler will create byte code files where binaries usually are (as well as the binaries), if I could have a single folder full of all the byte codes files that would be awesome.
I am running ubuntu 8 on a virtual box, I am a little stuck as to how I proceed.
So far I have gotten the kernel source code but I need to know how to build it. Usually I point CC and CXX env variables at the custom compiler when I am testing apps and run the configure and Makefile scripts.
If anyone has a link as to how to get started or can give me some advise that would be great. Cheers,
~ Dan
FYI - naturally if I find any bugs I will report them, all found bugs will be manually verified
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