Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

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From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Monday, October 15, 2007 - 7:23 am

Hi Rik.

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:01:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:

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.

	Sam
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WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rik van Riel, (Sun Oct 14, 4:01 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, WANG Cong, (Mon Oct 15, 3:40 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 15, 7:23 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rik van Riel, (Mon Oct 15, 8:10 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Jörn, (Mon Oct 15, 8:40 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Philippe Elie, (Mon Oct 15, 9:31 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Philippe Elie, (Mon Oct 15, 9:36 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Oct 15, 9:52 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Xavier Bestel, (Mon Oct 15, 9:53 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Doug Whitesell (LKML), (Mon Oct 15, 10:04 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Mark Gross, (Mon Oct 15, 10:04 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Zan Lynx, (Mon Oct 15, 10:10 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rik van Riel, (Mon Oct 15, 10:13 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rik van Riel, (Mon Oct 15, 10:23 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Guilherme Amadio, (Mon Oct 15, 10:30 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, J. Bruce Fields, (Mon Oct 15, 11:03 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 15, 11:19 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 15, 11:30 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 15, 11:31 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Mark Gross, (Mon Oct 15, 11:45 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Alexey Dobriyan, (Mon Oct 15, 12:17 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Folkert van Heusden, (Mon Oct 15, 12:54 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Giacomo Catenazzi, (Mon Oct 15, 12:54 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, david, (Mon Oct 15, 5:39 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, david, (Mon Oct 15, 5:51 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Mark Gross, (Tue Oct 16, 1:06 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Oct 16, 1:09 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Mark Gross, (Tue Oct 16, 1:10 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rik van Riel, (Tue Oct 16, 1:23 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Oct 16, 1:25 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Giacomo Catenazzi, (Tue Oct 16, 1:31 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, david, (Tue Oct 16, 2:10 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, david, (Tue Oct 16, 2:30 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Mark Gross, (Wed Oct 17, 10:45 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Toshiharu Harada, (Wed Oct 17, 9:51 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Pavel Machek, (Sun Oct 28, 11:07 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Oct 28, 11:57 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Lennart Sorensen, (Mon Oct 29, 12:48 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Pavel Machek, (Mon Oct 29, 1:19 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Lennart Sorensen, (Mon Oct 29, 2:44 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Giacomo Catenazzi, (Fri Nov 2, 12:54 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Valdis.Kletnieks, (Fri Nov 2, 8:08 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Rik van Riel, (Fri Nov 2, 8:36 pm)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, Wander Winkelhorst, (Sat Nov 3, 2:44 am)
Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students, david, (Sat Nov 3, 3:05 am)