Project Proposals for 2010

Here is a list of project proposals for 2010, submitted by various people:

Boot Time

• Add bootchart boot logger functionality to busybox

Boot Technologies

• Add DFU support to U-Boot
• Refactor the Qi lightweight bootloader
• Improve kexecboot
• Add IPV6 support to U-Boot
• Rework ARM architecture support in U-Boot

Graphics

• Decrease X.org XFree86 server footprint
• Suppress Xvnc dependency on C++

Input devices

• Add pointer visualization to the kernel framebuffer
• Kernel evdev IR support

Media Handling

• Create Bluray decoding library
• Extend DLNA specifications

Sound

• Complete hardware, use-case handling in ALSA

File systems

• Add Pramfs filesystem to the kernel mainline
• Add LZO compression support to Squashfs
• UBIFS mount time speedups

Power Management

• Add behavior-oriented power management

Realtime

• Add sleeping spinlocks to mainline kernel
• Create online trainning for using RT-preempt

System Size

• Add -ffunction-sections support to Linux kernel

Exception Handling

• Create a watchdog framework for the Linux kernel

Tools

• Create tool to edit ihex or srec files
• Create LabView equivalent for Linux
• Add Device Tree emulation support to QEMU
• Create Open Toolbox Platform
• Add pcc support for Linux kernel
• Combine tcg with tcc

Processor

• Implement NUBI ABI for MIPS