Project Proposals for 2013

Proposals for 2013 are listed here, categorized in the following technology areas:

See CEWG Open Project Proposal 2013 for details about submitting a proposal

File systems

 * More robust UBIFS support
 * Improve UBI user space tools
 * Implement scatter-gather lists support in UBI and UBIFS

Realtime

 * CPU Shielding capability

System Size

 * Compressed printk messages

Exception Handling

 * Support dumping user-space stack from kernel

Documentation

 * Device-tree documentation project

Test and Debug

 * Overwrite detection for kernel text and read-only data
 * Kernel module binary compatibility with debug features

Drivers

 * Improve devm_* and get rid of boilerplate code
 * Mainline synaptics touchscreen driver
 * Add device-tree support to pn544 NFC driver

Miscellaneous

 * Generic upgrade infrastructure for embedded systems
 * Support asymetric RSA in Crypto API
 * Add support for CONFIG_NUMA to ARM