Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

[Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>]

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.


--mgross


> 
> thanks,
> 
> Rik
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