Linux Kernel Based Research Projects

[Daniel Baluta]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 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?

First of all because the linux kernel changed a lot since then.
Second, because I think their code wasn't upstream ready.

Daniel.