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"make xconfig" Search Enhancement Linux Kernel "make xconfig" Enhancement Patch is a patch to the Linux kernel that enhances the search dialog of "make xconfig" by providing case-sensitivity and a choice of keyword search, regular expression search, and substring search. It was done in a modular way by enhancing the kernel C configuration API. 11logger a small kernel patch, a module and some userspace tool to add SIGSEGV logging and history capabilities to Linux 2.2.x Alphagate Systems Kernel Patchset The Alphagate Systems Kernel Patchset aims to provide new features and technologies, standard enhancements, as well as trivial-but-necessary fixes, that have not yet made it into the mainline (vanilla) Kernel. AQuoSA AQuoSA is an open architecture for the provisioning of Quality of Service related functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable and lightweight software architecture for supporting QoS related services on the top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux. The architecture is well founded on formal scheduling analysis and control theoretical results. atapi dvd-ram adds native DVD-RAM support to ide-cd AutoFS CD Changer a patch for autofs which automounts the different slots of a cd changer. It automatically changes the slots and remounts cds as needed giving the impression that they are all simultaneously mounted Autofs patch implements autofs protocol v4 and significantly modifies the autofs filesystem in order to support tree mounts BadMEM a kernel patch to handle broken RAM modules gracefully under Linux bsd bsd is a virtual server oriented patchset, containing essential elements for building virtual server container machines. It includes a CTX-VS patch, squashfs for creating a small template server, lufs and bme for easily creating overlayed filesystems on top of the template, and honeynet- inspired extensions to enhance monitoring of hosted servers. It also includes VPN extensions like OpenSWAN, MPPE, and CIPE to enable direct access to hosted virtual servers in situations where IPs are scarce. Bufflink (ftp only) provides a quick and easy way for kernel code to create a ring buffer and write to it from any context (process, bottom half or interrupt). A userland process can access it via a character device which behaves mostly like a FIFO C&T 65548 fbdev driver a patch (or standalone module) for Linux kernel that adds support for 800x600x256 colours framebuffer device with Chips&Technologies 65548 video chip Cap Processor Usage a modification to the Linux kernel that allows you to limit the amount of CPU power any given task can get. Unlike the ulimit command it does not limit total time a task can run - instead it limits how much percentage of the CPU the task can get. It also differs from nice command as it does not change priority of the task CD/DVD kernel patches CD/DVD patches for 2.2/2.3 kernels - adds DVD decryptions ioctls for 2.2, among other things. Central Data SCSI terminal system A patch against the Digi EtherLite drivers which allows support for the SCSI Terminal Server products using the FAS command set. CKO patchset cko is a patch for Linux kernel of 2.4 and 2.6 series which will make colored kernel messages in BSD style. Compressed caching goal is to implement compressed caching cprof an enhanced performance profiler tool written in C++ for use with C/C++ programs under GNU/Linux. Both flat profiles and call graphs a'la gprof are supported. Profiling multithreaded programs works out of the box DARE DARE is a small Linux kernel patch to the VFS (virtual filesystem) which transparently moves files into a special directory on each filesystem instead of removing them. It works like the Novell Netware Data Recovery system or MS Windows' Recycle Bin. DARE is independent of filesystem type, so it can be used without constraints on almost every filesystem. Deleted files are collected in a directory named "deleted" on the filesystem's root directory. There are also user space utilities for dealing with deleted files. devfs Device FileSystem patch dgt2684 allow QoS in RFC2684-compatible enacpsulation (i.e. ethernet connection over ATM PVC). You can have multiple traffic classes handled by single encapsulated interface, all they can have different QoS parameters DLM Distributed Lock Manager is a Linux kernel patch from Red Hat as part of their Linux clustering technology. Its programming API is very similar to those found on other operating systems, but is modeled most closely on VMS. e2compr The Linux e2compr package consists of a set of patches and utilities to provide transparent compression and decompression in the second extended (ext2) filesystem. Fairsched a hierarchical fair CPU scheduler. Processes are divided into groups and each group receives guaranteed CPU time allocation proportional to its weigh Fred Emmott's Linux kernel patches provides non-standard and backported 2.6 features for 2.4 kernels fscaps implements filesystem capabilities for the Linux operating system (2.5 and up) grsecurity consists of security patches based on code from hap-linux and openwall which have been ported to the 2.4 kernel HermesAP HermesAP provides driver-patches and other tools to use Accesspoint (BSS master) mode with Hermes/Orinoco cards under Linux. Hgafb a framebuffer driver for HGA cards HH501 Usb Smartmedia Reader This driver patches the Linux Kernel (a patch for the 2.6 exists) and adds read support. You needs an external device (like camera) to delete or format the card. IP Personality a patch to the newer Linux kernels that adds netfilter features: it enables the emulation of other OSes at network level, thus fooling remote OS detection tools such as nmap that rely on network fingerprinting KBDlock a patch to the keyboard and sysrq code in the Linux's kernel + a driver to lock the keyboard on a x86 machine Kernel Driver Compatibility a kernel compatibility layer Kernel Insider a linux kernel modification, that allows to decide wich uid, pid or file can open a tcp socket in listening state Kernel Socks Bouncer a Linux Kernel 2.6.x patch that redirects tcp connections [SSH, telnet, browsers...] to follow through socks5. KSB26 uses a character device to pass socks5 and target ips to the Linux Kernel Kernel Spinlock Metering Kernel Spinlock Metering allows you to build a kernel that can perform simple "metering", or record-keeping, of spinlock usage. Kernprof a set of facilities for profiling the Linux kernel. It consists of a kernel patch that implements a number of profiling data collection mechanisms as well as a device driver for controlling them, plus the user level command kernprof that allows a user to configure and control the kernel profiling facilities Linux ABI a patch to the linux kernel that allows a linux system to run foreign binaries Linux Access Control LIsts support allows supporting full access control lists (ACLs) for the Linux kernel Linux Boot Logo Patch Linux Boot Logo Patch is a kernel patch that is an enhancement of the well known "penguin" patch by J Sullivan. Linux Progress Patch a funny patch that provides a simple boot logo with progress bar and some informational text Linux/UID32 This is a set of patches to the Linux kernel which enable the use of 32 bits when internally representing user or group IDs, and a patch the the GNU C library which enables the use of 32 bit UIDs by applications. mark_in_u32 mark_in_u32 allows u32 classifier to match also the mark. Matrox Millennium II Xv extension will enhance the XFree86 4.2.0 Matrox Millennium II driver to support the X video (Xv) extension. It will enable full hardware horizontal scaling and YUV->RGB. (extremely useful for playing DVDs and other MPEGs) MD/RAID patches patches to the Md (Multiple Disk)/ RAID (Redundant Array of Independant Devices) driver MOSIX kernel enhancements for BSD/OS for supporting cluster computing. Linux support is under development. msr patch a driver to provide access to Model-Specific Registers (MSRs) and Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs) mtrr patch improves the code and adds support for non-Intel CPUs openMosix a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive OpenWRT port for the Fritz!Box 7170 This is a port of the OpenWRT router firmware to the Fritz!Box 7170 which originally runs a kernel with binary blobs. Revision 8520 of the OpenWRT trunk with the patches below was used to get OpenWRT running. PageTrace PageTrace is a kernel patch and set of utilities to analyze memory access patterns. This tool may help Linux kernel developers determine exactly what the page replacement algorithm should do, something which has not been done recently. PaX PaX is a Linux kernel patch which protects against a number of overflow attacks (but not all overflow attacks). PaXtest is a tool which tests the protection provided by PaX. It is a regression test suite that tries to do all kinds of dirtry tricks and then reports what worked and what did not. Anything that PaXtest can do, an attacker can do too. PC Speaker Driver Patch Michael Beck and David Woodhouse's driver for using the PC speaker as the cheapest imaginable soundcard, fixed up a little for use with kernel 2.3. It also supports various homebuilt DAC's that connect to the parallel port per-process RSS limits (ftp only) tracks integral and maximum RSS and makes them available to the getrusage() and wait4() system calls perfctr perfctr is a x86 performance-monitoring counters patch for Linux. pktcdvd (ftp only) an implementation of packet writing for CD-RW drives POSIX 1003.1b clock/timer patch for the Linux kernel's clock/timer code, and it is derived from a patch from the University of Kansas. It includes modifications for all architectures for the system call numbers and other things. The core facilities are architecture independent PowerPack ;] Patchset PowerPack ;] Patchset is a Linux kernel 2.6 patch set designed for servers and network gateways. It includes: grsecurity, openswan, p-o-m, cks, imq, layer7, esfq, wrr, srr, tproxy2, and many other enhancements over the vanilla kernel. Proconfig designed to be configured as a tiny kernel footprint of 3-5K, plus an external module that you load once and then throw away again. The latter converts the kernel 'print data to more readable format RSBAC a big patch for current Linux kernels. It is based on the Generalized Framework for Access Control (GFAC) by Abrams and LaPadula and provides a flexible system of access control based on several modules rtq patch to place real-time (RT) processes on a separate run queue. This further isolates RT processes from normal processes and hence provides faster and more deterministic context switch times for RT processes sch_dup sch_dup is a queueing discipline that simulate the packet duplication. sch_log sch_log is a patch for Linux kernel that allows qdisc to mirror traffic that pass to a special network device which can be listened to with tcpdump. Users can easily find out what goes into the default class, for example. sch_ooo sch_ooo is a queueing discipline that produces out-of-order packets. Secure-Linux Patch adds a few security features to the kernel which, while not a complete method of protection, will stop most of the 'cookbook' buffer overflow exploits cold SF16-FMR driver SF16-FMR driver is a small kernel patch (should work with kernel 2.2.14 and probably other 2.2.x kernels) to make the SF16-RFM radio card (From Typhoon/MediaForte/etc.) work with all tuner programs. slab memory allocator a reimplementation of the slab memory allocator SMT Kernel Simple Multi-Threading kernel is an add-on for the Libero programming tool that lets you write portable high-performance multithreaded programs based on Libero's finite-state machine (FSM) design method. SOFFIC Secure On-the-Fly File Integrity Checker: a Linux kernel patch that provides file integrity control integrated to the normal system operation (this is on-the-fly). This means you don't need to remember to execute a program to check your files integrity once a week Solar Designer's non-executable stack patch Solar Designer's non-executable stack patch is a collection of security-related features for the Linux kernel, all configurable via the new 'Security options' configuration section. suser-jengelh Kernel Patchset suser-jengelh Kernel Patchset is a patch collection for the Linux kernel. It includes code from a lot of projects, such as ttyrpld, MultiAdmin, parts of NF POM, cdfs, unionfs, and various accumulated bugfixes still not present in the vanilla kernel. suser-jengelh/ccj kernel patchset The suser-jengelh kernel patchset contains a number of accumulated fixes as well as new features such as ttyrpld, multiadm, chaostables, various netfilter extensions, and other improvements. Sysmask Sysmask is a security enhancement package for Linux systems, featuring interactive security reactions, protection against both system level and user level networking risks, capability of disarming many kernel vulnerabilities, etc. It can protect the system integrity against vulnerabilities in the great majority of codes, whether known or unknown, patched or non-patched, in user programs, libraries or the kernel. TiVo's kernel mods some modifications to the Linux PPC kernel TOMOYO Linux TOMOYO Linux is an extension for Linux to provide mandatory access control (MAC) functions. It is provided in the form of patches to the Linux vanilla kernel and utilities for policy management. USB Keyboard Target TTY Extension a patch for linux 2.4.0 which allows one to bind a USB keyboard to a specific console user-mode kernel a port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface. It runs in a set of processes, resulting in a user-mode virtual machine UTIME Micro-Second Resolution Timers for Linux V86-64 V86-64 is a Linux kernel patch which adds the vm86() system call currently missing in the x86-64 Linux kernel. It lets DOS programs to run under DOSEMU natively without CPU emulation. vanheusden.com Linux-kernel security patch includes code for the following things: - random PID - random port-numbers for IPv4, NAT, IPv6 - enhanced random-values for networking xlike Kernel Patchset xlike Kernel Patchset is a patch collection for the Linux vanilla kernel. It includes as many stable enhancements for the Linux kernel as possible. These include code from Kernel Mode Linux, Rule Set Based Access Control, Novell AppArmor, Openswan, grsecurity, Ndiswrapper, web100, Nefilters, Suspend2, Speakup, Amiga Smart File System, Cdemu, SquashFS, fbsplash, QuadDSP, and more. It also contains many drivers and fixes. xmlprocfs a patch of linux kernel to new file system which is corresponding to traditional procfs
