Hi Rik. On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:01:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > The kernel newbies community often gets inquiries from CS students who > need a project for their studies and would like to do something with > the Linux kernel, but would also like their code to be useful to the > community afterwards. > > In order to make it easier for them, I am trying to put together a > page with projects that: > - Are self contained enough that the students can implement the > project by themselves, since that is often a university requirement. > - Are self contained enough that Linux could merge the code (maybe > with additional changes) after the student has been working on it > for a few months. > - Are large enough to qualify as a student project, luckily there is > flexibility here since we get inquiries for anything from 6 week > projects to 6 month projects. > > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them > to this page (or email me): > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects
In the kernel build area a few possible projects exists. Increase speed for a build with no updates ========================================== On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated. Generating one single Makefile is assumed to speed up things and will in addition allow a simpler syntax as what is used today for some of the uglier constructs. Contact: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Difficulty: 5 Language: Perl or C Increase speed for a build wich updates a single file ===================================================== We often edit a single file and then do a build. And the result is that we spend 80% of the time linking the kernel. So an obvious improvement for the kernel community would be to improve the speed of the linker (and decrease memory footprint). Contact: ? Difficulty: ? Language: C Update menuconfig to a modern ncurses look&feel =============================================== htop, aptitude, tig and other ncurses based programs has a more modern and effective look&feel than current menuconfig. Rip out all the lxdialog stuff and replace it with a ncurses based frontend that looks better and has more functionality. Contact: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Difficulty: 5 Language: C They are independent but challenging and would be very much appreciated by the kernel community. I could come up with more projects but these are the ones that are most straightforward to start with. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/