Kernel Meetup Topic Proposals - 2017

You can propose up to three topics to discuss during each meetup. If you want to have more than that, please discuss on the meetup mailing list to gain consensus.

Wish List

These are topics you would like to have covered but don't have the expertise to cover at the moment.

• Add toy page allocator instead of using buddy allocator
• Code walkthrough MMU
• B-tree
• Namespaces and cgroups
• Linux Networking Overview - Rutuja
• Networking - Packet mangling/Netfilter
• ELF File format - Siddhesh
• Kernel compilation and testing
• File System in User Space (FUSE)
• Neural networks and optimisations based on the architecture
• Fuchsia OS
• Trusted boot on ARM
• U boot
• SMP
• Rust on microcontrollers/Rust for systems programming
• Manufacturing in India (supply chain for CPUs, memory, etc., costs for doing low volume prototypes, local prototyping facilities - 3dprinters, board design, manufacturing, laser cutters, etc.). Any volunteers?
• Fuzzing and static analysis

Finished earlier

• End to end design of an embedded board - Amit Kucheria
• Zephyr - Amit Kucheria

February 2017

• Submitting first patch upstream: Jitendra Khasdev
• Overview of Linux Memory Management: Pankaj Gupta

March 2017

Skipped.

April 2017

• Kernel crash dump analysis: Nitin Bansal
• Basics of the ext file system: Jitendra Khasdev

May 2017

• Power Management Overview - Amit Kucheria