[cgl_discussion] PoC "top ten"

Rod Van Meter Rod.VanMeter at nokia.com
Tue Mar 11 08:26:23 PST 2003


Mika wants a list of projects to be pushed into kernel.  He wants some
feedback on this, at least an acknowledgement.  So far, Julie has asked
some questions about the POSIX stuff, to which I don't have the answers.

Comments?

		--Rod


I've added some others for mainline:

pushing into 2.5:

* IPv6:
  - most core IPv6 ND, autoconf, bugfixes, etc. have gone in,
    including privacy extensions.  Some in 2.4.20, more in 2.4.21.
  - IPSec accepted by Dave Miller todayish, pushing to Linus
    probably 2.5.65
  - MIPv6 pending; may or may not make it?  MN & CN probably will, HA
    may not
  - SNMP (Randy/Yixiong) should make 2.5, but worried about changes to
    /proc
* POSIX
  - timers (POSIX interface to clocks & timers is in)
  - possible bugs (see below)
* IPMI

waiting for 2.7:

* IPv6:
  - maybe MIP, esp. HA
*  POSIX:
  - hi-res timers
* TIPC

stalled:

* kernel debugger
* kernel dumps

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Non-kernel, therefore not subject to this logic:

(These items may have kernel dependencies, but will not be shipped as
part of the kernel.)

Well under way:

* OpenPOSIX test suite
* Hot device identity (status?)
  (MontaVista one may have had kernel change, Nokia was user-only)

More problematic:

* TAHI cooperation/IPv6 testing
* TIPC testing
* application loading (done, but not accepted by glibc?)

* IPv6:
  - glibc -- e.g., getifaddrs() needed by DHCPv6 (hosted by OSDL)
    ported from BSD, but haven't been pushed to glibc maintainers yet

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Red flag items:

* AEM
* boot cycle detection
* live SW upgrade
* resource monitoring
* OpenHPI still waiting on SAF/legal stuff; resources expected to be
  available (probably all non-kernel)





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