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    SubjectRe: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students
    On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST)
    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
    > On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote:
    > >
    > >base function:
    > >Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a
    > >kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the
    > >drivers needed for the platform I'm building on.
    >
    > Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the modules for your
    > hardware, all that would be needed is to transform the lsmod list of
    > modules plus the static options in /proc/config.gz (stuff like
    > psmouse) back into kconfig options ;-)

    Well, at that point it does not know whether or not you
    occasionally plug in an ipod or a digital camera.

    Going back from the lsmod output to all the right CONFIG
    options is also not as trivial as it sounds, due to all
    the dependencies there are.

    This project sounds like it could be a great undergraduate
    project, maybe built on top of Ketchup to automatically
    fetch, configure, compile and install a working kernel :)

    Are there any volunteers to write down the project
    description on the kernelnewbies.org wiki?

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    by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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