Items to Merge

This a list of branches and patches which might be interesting for integration into the mainline or at least worth cherrypicking. The list is in no particular order.

• Task checkpointing (​lp:~tomas-brambora/helenos/checkpoint)
  • Probably hard to integrate as-is, but worth cherrypicking (e.g. restarting of syscalls)

• Statistical profiler (​lp:~ersin/helenos/measure2)
  • RTC driver, statistical profiler

• MMU-less operation (​lp:~jiri-tlach/helenos/nommu)
  • Worth integrating as-is, but a heavy maintenance burden
    • The kernel from the thesis was made fibril-aware. It was later agreed with JiriT that:

      the kernel shouldn't be fibril-aware, so rewriting it so that the fibril related info resides in uspace should be a right step.

• Better extending to a genuine hardware platform without MMU

• NUMA support (​lp:~vojtech-horky/helenos/numa)
  • Worth integrating as-is
  • Some logical overlap with DMA zones, etc.

• RBAC and security (Stepan Henek)
  • Probably hard to integrate as-is, but worth cherrypicking

• NICF (​lp:~helenos-nicf/helenos/nicf)
  • Still valuable code unmerged (e.g. RTL8139 and E1000 drivers), but some key parts need reimplementation (DMA zones, DMA in general)

• WIP: GRUB and installer (Dominik Taborsky)
  • Worth early integration

• WIP: Xen support (Tomas Benhak)
  • Worth early integration

• WIP: Sound subsystem (Jan Vesely)
  • Worth early integration (alternative DMA implementation)