Linux Kernel Based Research Projects

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016, Daniel Baluta wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm final year computer science undergraduate student. I want to do my
> > major project based on linux kernel.
> >
> > Would you please suggest me some areas in the kernel which have some
> > projects. To be more specific, I want know on going research areas in
> > kernel. Or some ideas which are not yet implemented.
>
> Would you be interested in taking a look at lguest? [1]
>
> I will be having a presentation about lguest and how one learn
> linux kernel internals by studying lguest code
> this week at LinuxCon Europe [2]
>
> Porting it on x86_64 or any other architecture will be a very cool project
> but I warn you it won't be trivial :).
>
> thanks,
> Daniel.
>
> [1] http://lguest.ozlabs.org/
> [2] http://sched.co/7o92

  Reference [1] claims, "Those crazy guys at Red Hat have an
experimental port of lguest to x86-64: you can grab their git tree."
so why do you say porting to x86_64 wouldn't be trivial?

rday

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