> 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
>
> Is there already a make config option that will do a good job at setting
> a default .config file based on what is already running on a system?
>
> I get tiered of trimming down my .config for my laptop build so it takes
> less than 30min to build a kernel.
>
> Bonus credit to additional "expert" options (like those powertop puts
> out) for target uses, laptop, HPC, home file share, embedded targets....
>
> Oh, and lets make the expert configs easily extensible.
