Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:23:52 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students |
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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 <sam@ravnborg.org> 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 <sam@ravnborg.org> 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.
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