[svlug] FIRST MEETING DETAILS - weekly Linux Kernel walk-through sessions

[Akkana Peck]

Paul Reiber writes:
> If you're planning to be an active part of this on an ongoing basis,
> please feel free to email me with URLs, potential agendas, etc. and
> I'll compile/coalesce the results and share with the group.

Several people have expressed interest in startup and init.
I'm not sure if there's a lot of interesting actual kernel code 
involved there, but if there is, I'd be interested too.

How the process table is managed might be another good place
to start (and we'd get a better understanding of things like
those pesky zombie processes).

Specific kernel areas I'd love to learn about:

- ACPI and power management, how suspend (to RAM or disk, but
  especially RAM) and ACPI sleep states are managed, and what
  happens on resume. And what's up with those unkillable daemons
  running in kernel space?

- Udev.

- The "completely fair scheduler" and how it can help desktop
  processes (and it would be interesting to hear ways that the CK
  scheduler might have differed, if anyone knows).

- A USB driver or two -- device drivers are one of the areas where
  it might be most possible to contribute, and so many devices are USB.
  (Maybe choose some USB class where a lot of devices still don't
  have drivers, like webcams.)

- The new wireless infrastructure, and analyze any specific wireless
  driver -- as with USB drivers, it's an area that needs help, so if
  we can learn how the system works, we might be able to contribute.

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