How to get started hacking NetBSD - Taylor R Campbell - EuroBSDcon 2023

Taylor R Campbell: How to get started hacking NetBSD
You've used a BSD, but have you used the open source of it to bend it to your will? Does it grant you freedom, or just confine you to a different set of bugs?

This talk will tell the story of how I got into hacking NetBSD with zero experience in kernel development, and how you can get started with things too even if you aren't an experienced kernel hacker, including:

making cross-builds a breeze to do work from any platform,
diving into the kernel,
how to read a device driver,
working on a single subsystem at a time,
iterating development with automatic tests, chroots, rump, and VMs.

For beginners and experienced C hackers alike!

Taylor R Campbell:
Taylor ‘Riastradh’ Campbell has been a NetBSD developer since 2011, working on various areas including device drivers and multiprocessor safety, and is a member of the NetBSD core team and The NetBSD Foundation board.