I have been following linux kernel development since the 2.1.27 kernel. Over the years I have submitted a few patches and other such. Here is a list.

• Sometime in 1997. I found a bug where a networking change wouldn't let my talker restart right away. Submitted a patch but Dave Miller had already fixed it. ALREADY FIXED
• July 1998 - "Text Mode Boot Logo" patch. Attempt to have a linux_logo like penguin on bootup. Against 2.1.108 kernel. REJECTED
• September 1999 - "standardized /proc/cpuinfo" patch. against 2.3.16 that would make /proc/cpuinfo the same across all architectures and aid linux_logo development. REJECTED
• January 2000 -"MIPS Indigo 2 support" Support to have SGI Indigo 2's shown as such and not Indy's. Was rejected by MIPS maintainers. Wanted a bigger cpuinfo re-write. REJECTED
• April 2000 - "ECPEPP emulation in parallel port" Support EPP over ECP hardware mode in parallel port driver. ACCEPTED
• Summer 2000 - "Ali1535 Irda Support" patch. Worked on this as part of my summer job. Never got it to work quite right. NEVER SUBMITTED
• October 2000 - "K6-2+ Support" patch. The K6-2+ was a new processor that wasn't initialized properly by Linux with regards to MTRR's and cache. This fixed it. ACCEPTED IN KERNEL 2.4.0-test10
• January 2001 - "Broken Cyrix 486 detection" patch. In the 2.4.0 kernel some cpuinfo restructuring made my Cyrix CPU be detected as a nexgen. ACCEPTED IN KERNEL 2.4.1
• September 2001 - "SSE on Athlon 4" patch. Helped my friend John Clemens dig through some obscure AMD documentation to get SSE enabled on his Athlon 4 notebook. I think an alternate version of this patch was merged
• March 2006 - VGA-out on the iBook2: Ported a 2.4 patch to allow vga-out on 2001 era apple iBooks under Linux. PENDING
• May 2007 - Patch to add Pentium II Deschutes and 32-bit Athlon support to the perfmon2 performance counter subsystem. Merged, awaiting perfmon merge into kernel
• And after that I stopped keeping track, but a "git log" of the kernel source tree will show the various other contributions I've made over the years.

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