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

Graphics

• Decrease X.org XFree86 server footprint

Power Management

• Add behavior-oriented power management

File systems

• Add Pramfs filesystem to the kernel mainline
• Add LZO compression support to Squashfs
• UBIFS mount time speedups

Media Handling

• Create Bluray decoding library
• Extend DLNA specifications

Realtime

• Add sleeping spinlocks to mainline kernel

Sound

• Complete hardware, use-case handling in ALSA

Tools

• Create tool to edit ihex or srec files
• Create LabView equivalent for Linux
• Add Device Tree emulation support to QEMU