My Linux projects

This is the list of Linux projects in which I'm currently involved, and the roadmap for my further work there. The order roughly reflects my priorities for the next few days. Don't trust my plans too much - I usually don't follow them anyway :-)

I've recently submitted quite a few patches, mainly for traffic control. I'm tracking their status here, and the actual patches are here.

newlib for Linux (in progress)
Patch to make newlib run natively under Linux (as a low-overhead replacement for glibc, e.g. for initrd)
- merge into mainstream (DONE)
- get to build modutils (DONE)
- add networking
- get to build util-linux, in particular mount, in particular for NFS
unmount root patch (DONE)
- pivot_root(2) is completed.
- pivot_root(8) is included in util-linux.
- initrd documentation updated
Started work on implementing Linux boots Linux, the missing piece for a boot architecture that doesn't need to put features into the boot loader. (Okay, most of the time.)
- My code is here (in progress)
- There is also a "competing" solution called LOBOS from the Linux BIOS project.
- More competition: Two Kernel Monte
- bootimg(2) is nearing completion on i386 (ia32).
- bootimg(8) needs more work (a lot).
- To do: update to current kernel
- To do: support non-i386 architectures
- To do: write tiny version of bootimg(8) for use in memory-constrained initrds
Diffserv on Linux (continuous development)
- Merge pending bug fixes into 2.4.1 or 2.4.2
- Make 2.2 release (maybe)
- Maybe eliminate configuration option for tc
Linux traffic control, general
- Implementation overview, working on 2.4.x update (current draft version)
- Linux traffic control, next generation design (tcng)
  ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/tcng/
  This mainly consists of the following two parts:
  - New configuration language and translation tools ( current prototype)
  - Linux traffic control simulator (tcsim)
    This one is already quite usable. The current development version can be found here.
Not strictly a project, but there is a collection of tools which may be useful for others too.
Sony Vaio C1XN (started)
- most of the camera work has been done by Andrew Tridgell and can be found here
- need to write SPIC driver
Booting Linux
- update document for 2.4.0

Werner Almesberger, 25-FEB-2001