Re: Kernel areas that need attention?

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 07:26:01AM -0500, Christoff Humphries wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> What are some areas within the kernel that need some attention? 
> 
> I’m looking for a project within the kernel to work on, and I 
> wanted to reach out to see what may be neglected or could use a
> programmer to check it out.
> 
> Thanks!
> Christoff

If you are looking for some low hanging fruit.

There are many WiFI drivers that still need to be converted
to the new branch on Mercurial. You will need to obtain some
hardware.

This will help us move to a fully MPSAFE networking stack,
get better WiFi performance, and make it easier to sync newer
drivers from FreeBSD.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/Driver_state_matrix/

There are many little code problems constantly being
detected by fuzzing to investigate. Some have C reproducer
code.  This helps contribute to the stability, reliability, and
security of NetBSD.

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/netbsd

There are also various other little things you can try to
find work for yourself. A good exercise might be to try
running some random Linux binaries with compat_linux, find
which ones fail, and investigate which system calls they are
using that compat_linux does not yet support.