Dell - Dell Linux - Contributions

Here's an abridged list of specific contributions Dell has made to the Linux community during our involvement with Linux.

Hardware donations to Linux organizations such as kernel.org, the Fedora Project, Open Source Development Labs, LWN.net, Linux ACPI project, Red Hat, Novell/SuSE, and others.
Developers maintain, review code, and/or regularly provide patches for specific projects (not incidental issue discovery).
Every device driver in use on a Dell system. In most cases, drivers are written and maintained by the hardware vendor, though Dell engineers offer advice and patches as needed.
- Adaptec SCSI and RAID device drivers
- LSI SCSI and RAID device drivers
- QLogic FibreChannel device drivers
- Emulex FibreChannel device drivers
- Intel e100 and e1000 network device drivers
- Broadcom tg3 and bnx2 network device drivers
- OpenIPMI device drivers and initscripts
- SATA device drivers
- USB device drivers
- Dell-specific BIOS and systems management drivers
Common kernel code:
- BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive support
- EFI Variables support
- GUID Partition table support
- CRC32 libraries and cleanups
- PPP MPPE support
Common userspace code:
- GUID Partition Table support for GNU Parted
- efibootmgr
- DKMS
- firmware-tools
- ipmitool
OS Distribution-specific code:
- Red Hat anaconda features
- SuSE YaST features
- Common Device Driver Model work with Novell/SuSE and Red Hat, DKMS support for this model.
Hundreds of thousands of person-hours of testing, issue discovery, debugging, code and documentation changes.
Participation and presentations in Linux conferences such as LinuxWorldExpo, the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the Linux Kernel Summit, Red Hat Summit, Novell Brainshare.
Fedora Project Board community member Matt Domsch.
Organizations:
- Free Standards Group - Linux Standard Base