Projects in the topic kernel
The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel.


ethtool ops for netdevsim

a project by mkubecek

This can be seen as a subproject of ethtool netlink interface but from the technical view it's independent.

Updated almost 5 years ago. No love. 1 follower.

Investigate C-Sky architecture

an invention by a_faerber

The youngest architecture addition to the mainline Linux kernel was C-Sky (arch/csky/).

Updated over 5 years ago. 1 hackers ♥️. 1 follower.

Support for DRM platform drivers

an invention by tdz

This project could get us rid of the last fbdev drivers we're stil shipping: efifb and vesafb.

Updated 1 day ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Mainline Sunplus Plus1 SP7021 kernel for Banana Pi F2S

a project by a_faerber

The recent Banana Pi BPI-F2S board features a new Arm SoC SP7021 by Sunplus, which is not yet supported in mainline Linux.

Updated over 3 years ago. No love. 1 follower.

DRM driver for USB-based SiS graphics cards

a project by tdz

Back in the late 90s to early 2000s, SiS graphics chips were fairly common and found in many low-end devices. Today, the chips are still capable enough for simple graphics needs, but the graphics cards were on PCI and AGP buses. They are not usable in modern computers.

Updated over 3 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Test mainline kernel on an older Qualcomm SOC (msm89xx), explore current Qualcomm mainlining kernel effort

an invention by pvorel

Project Description

Updated almost 2 years ago. 2 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Separate kernel module signature to a independent file

an idea by joeyli

Updated over 3 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 1 follower. Has no hacker: grab it!

Setup A Linux Cross Referencer for SUSE kernels

a project by tdz

Project Description

Updated over 2 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 5 followers.

early stage kdump support

a project by mbrugger

Updated about 22 hours ago. 16 hacker ♥️. 12 followers.

Modular kernel packaging

a project by mwilck

Project Description

Updated over 2 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 4 followers.

generic zswap dedup

a project by ailiopoulos

Updated over 2 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Poking technologies for enrolling customer key to kernel trusted keyring

a project by joeyli

Updated over 2 years ago. 1 hackers ♥️. 1 follower.

Model checking the BPF verifier

a project by shunghsiyu

Project Description

Updated about 1 year ago. 9 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Rust in linux kernel

an invention by dsterba

Updated about 1 year ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

mac80211_hwsim tool

a project by cfconrad

Project Description

Updated over 2 years ago. 1 hackers ♥️. 2 followers.

Nanos Unikernel

an idea by rpalethorpe

Project Description

Updated over 2 years ago. No love. 1 follower. Has no hacker: grab it!

Explore Steam Deck issues in openSUSE Tumbleweed

a project by tschmitz

Updated almost 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Understand and review klp-convert patchset

a project by mpdesouza

Updated almost 2 years ago. 2 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Improve Qualcomm SOC msm8994/msm8992 kernel mainline support

a project by pvorel

Project Description

Updated over 1 year ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Create a DRM driver for VGA video cards

a project by tdz

Yes, those VGA video cards. The goal of this project is to implement a DRM graphics driver for such devices. While actual hardware is hard to obtain or even run today, qemu emulates VGA output.

Updated almost 2 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️. 4 followers.

drgn: implement crash top-level commands

a project by marxin

Project Description

Updated almost 2 years ago. No love. 2 followers.

How software creation process can save energy and CO2 emissions

an invention by acervesato

Updated almost 2 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Authenticated hashes for BTRFS

a project by dsterba

Project Description

Updated about 1 year ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Linux on Cavium CN23XX cards

a project by tsbogend

Before Cavium switched to ARM64 CPUs they developed quite powerful MIPS based SOCs. The current upstream Linux kernel already supports some Octeon SOCs, but not the latest versions. Goal of this Hack Week project is to use the latest Cavium SDK to update the Linux kernel code to let it running on CN23XX network cards.

Updated almost 2 years ago. 2 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

FizzBuzz OS

a project by mssola

Project Description

Updated 3 months ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 5 followers.