Hackery

Various open source contributions (very incomplete)

• Valgrind:
  • Added support for CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY ioctl
• libblkid (util-linux)
  • Fix #1
  • Fix #2
  • Fix #3
  • Fix #4
• Wireshark:
  • Fixed handling of IPv4 fragmentation bits.
• iproute2
  • Many man page fixes
• Linux kernel:
  • Added support for Model-30 Nehalem processors in Oprofile (more discussion on oprofile-users)
  • Addressed issues in HugeTLBFS's API.
  • Addressed an issue in IPv4 address/route removal.
  • Worked out some kinks in Matrox G400 framebuffer and SiS-5591 IDE drivers.
  • Next Generation Posix Threading maintenance
• strace:
  • Addressed issues in various architectures' sendfile(2) support.
• x86info:
  • fixed feature-specific TLB and cache detection
  • added support for several Intel caches
• DynamoRIO:
  • added Nehalem support
• avant-wireless
  • An AWN applet which tracks wireless connection properties, and spawns wpa_gui
• iw
  • Correct unsigned ints used to hold signed data
• Snort
  • Various signature documentation