From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754376AbYEXLzt (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2008 07:55:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750855AbYEXLzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2008 07:55:40 -0400 Received: from prof.cs.pub.ro ([141.85.37.3]:44116 "EHLO mail.cs.pub.ro" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbYEXLzj (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2008 07:55:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 597 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 07:55:39 EDT From: Octavian Purdila Organization: Politehnica University of Bucharest To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [announce] linux kernel library project Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:44:06 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Lucian Grijincu , Stefania Costache MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805241444.06791.tavi@cs.pub.ro> X-mail.cs.pub.ro-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-mail.cs.pub.ro-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.712, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 0.71) X-mail.cs.pub.ro-MailScanner-From: tavi@cs.pub.ro Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi everybody, The purpose of the Linux Kernel Library project is to organize the Linux kernel code in a library which can be used in third party projects. It strives to be portable across hardware platforms, operating systems, as well as kernel and user-space environments. The library prototype we developed was tested with a few applications (prototypes as well): - portable FTP daemon (using the Apache Runtime Library) which can be used to read/write Linux filesystems - windows filesystem driver for Linux filesystems We also added (very incomplete) support for running the application code under valgrind to help us catch memory related bugs in the kernel code via a new SL*B allocator. The modifications to the Linux kernel code are minimal and isolated, as all modifications are done as a new architecture port. You can find the code in git repositories here: http://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/git/?p=lkl/linux-2.6;a=summary http://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/git/?p=lkl/lklftpd;a=summary http://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/git/?p=lkl/lklvfs;a=summary Since the code is starting the bitrot, I thought of dropping an announce here to get your opinion and maybe a boost to this project - if there are people believing that there is value in this project. We are eagerly waiting for your comments :) Thanks, Lucian, Stefania, Tavi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.