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# Welcome to Gitit!
# Discombobulate Linux
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This project is an attempt at cleaning up Android vendor kernels.
Help is always available through the "Help" link in the sidebar.
More details on installing and configurating gitit are available
in the [Gitit User’s Guide]().
The wiki is a work in progress and currently not much more than a stub.
Currently the plan is to have three parts of this project:
1. **[Tooling]()**: Develop tools that can categorize the patches in a vendor's version of a Linux kernel into different buckets: vendor specfic, also found in another tree, cherry picked from elsewhere, etc. This will be useful to determine which patches have to be ported when porting them to a newer release. Often vendors are not cooperating with the Free Software movement to make this job easier, so this kind of source-level reverse engineering is required.
2. **[Phone kernel]()**: Based on the tools, port patches to a newer kernel release. Initially the latest release of the kernel version used on the device, later ideally a newer LTS kernel. Currently my main target is Samsung Galaxy S9 because that's what I have. Ideally, this work would be extended to different phones, and other groups of maintainers pick up the tooling to do so.
3. **[Documentation]()**: Document findings about the Samsung kernel, so that an in-depth documentation of this kernel's specific changes exists. Also the development of the tooling and general development progress will be documented in the form of a devlog in this wiki.
