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Karmic Plans

• Kernel Choice

Developer

• KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies - How to triage kernel bugs.

• KernelTeam/KernelDevelopmentShift - New development model.

• KernelTeam/KernelGitGuide - Using the git repos.

• KernelTeam/GitCheatSheet - Git recipes

• KernelTeam/KernelUpdates - Updates to stable kernels.

• KernelTeam/KernelMaintenance - How to maintain the kernel.

• KernelTeam/KernelMaintenanceStarter - Cheatsheet for KernelTeam/KernelMaintenance.

• KernelTeam/KernelBugFixing - Process flow for fixing kernel bugs.

• KernelTeam/KernelBuildScripts - Information on how to use some helper scripts for remote building.

• KernelTeam/KernelPatches - How to submit a patch and why we will or won't take patches.

• KernelTeam/KernelPackageVersioning - How to version changes to kernel packages.

• KernelTeam/KernelPackagePolicies - Describes the kernel packages maintainer functions

• KernelPackageABIRelationships - Which packages need ABI bumping during stable updates.

• KernelTeam/KernelConfig - Why the Ubuntu config is the way it is.

• KernelTeam/TopicBranches - What is a Topic Branch?

• KernelTeam/StableKernelMaintenance - how the SRU process applied to the kernel.

• ARM kernel cross compilation

Debugging

• KernelTeam/DebuggingVoodoo - Q&A for strange symptoms and how to debug

• DebuggingIRQProblems - HEFIBootLoaderselp debugging common IRQ problems.

• DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume - Help debugging suspend/resume and hibernate/resume problems.

• KernelPPA - Instructions on how to use the kernel team's PPA as well using a specific kernel developer's PPA.

• BIOSandUbuntu - Debugging BIOS issues on Ubuntu (DSDT, Reboot, Suspend/Resume).

• KernelMainlineBuilds - How to use mainline kernels for debugging.

• Ubuntu to mainline mapping - a table of Ubuntu releases and which mainline version they are based on including the current release pocket assignments.

• KernelTeam/KernelDebuggingTricks - Some kernel debugging tricks and tips.

• Hotkeys/Troubleshooting -- How to debug non-working hotkeys.

Calls for Testing

• KernelTeam/Grub2Testing -- testing of the updated grub2 bootloader for x86

User info

• Building your own kernels

  • KernelCustomBuild - Building your own kernels - Q&A

• GitKernelBuild - Build mainline kernel from git. Also help with submitting bugs to upstream bugzilla.kernel.org

• LinuxWireless - Testing and reporting bugs to the upstream linux wireless developers

Reference

• KernelVMAddressing - Per-arch breakdown of VM addressing

• EFIBootLoaders - EFI/UEFI bootloaders (non-BIOS)