Interest in contributing to the CXL community

Interest in contributing to the CXL community

[Arvind Nanjundaswamy]

Hello All,

I'm Aravind, ex-HP-UX kernel developer and have worked in virtual
memory solutions during 2002 - 2010. I have a decent understanding of
system architecture and its programming aspects related to VM. I have
worked on ccNUMA extensions, memory Online/offline solutions and
enabling largepage support.

I have ventured elsewhere since 2010 and want to get back to VM
development, especially about CXL implications on VM operations.

I'm open to taking up small beginner-friendly patches since this is my
first time contributing to the community. I'm looking for mentors who
can help me through the process.

Kindly help.

Thank you,
Aravind Nanjundaswamy

Re: Interest in contributing to the CXL community

[Dave Jiang]

On 11/20/25 5:04 AM, Arvind Nanjundaswamy wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm Aravind, ex-HP-UX kernel developer and have worked in virtual
> memory solutions during 2002 - 2010. I have a decent understanding of
> system architecture and its programming aspects related to VM. I have
> worked on ccNUMA extensions, memory Online/offline solutions and
> enabling largepage support.
> 
> I have ventured elsewhere since 2010 and want to get back to VM
> development, especially about CXL implications on VM operations.
> 
> I'm open to taking up small beginner-friendly patches since this is my
> first time contributing to the community. I'm looking for mentors who
> can help me through the process.
> 
> Kindly help.
> 
> Thank you,
> Aravind Nanjundaswamy
> 

You should just start contributing on topics of interest and we can go from there. Also take a look at the maturity map [1] and see what areas need work. And if you are new to Linux patch submission, please take a look at this [2] doc.

[1]: https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/cxl/maturity-map.html
[2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.17/process/submitting-patches.html