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

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