kci-bisect

A generic toolbox for automated Linux kernel bisection.

This project provides composable building blocks for bisecting kernel regressions — build failures, boot failures, and test failures. The components are designed to be usable standalone or integrated into CI systems such as KernelCI.

Status

Early development. We are collecting existing bisection scripts and tools from multiple organisations and refactoring them into reusable components. Contributions are welcome.

Goals

• Generic bisection framework not tied to any single CI system
• Composable building blocks: build, test, cache, result parsing, reporting
• Support for reproducible builds (TuxMake) and tests (TuxRun)
• Pluggable backends for build and test execution
• Usable both as a CLI tool and as a library

Repository structure

kci-bisect/
├── contrib/           # Existing scripts from contributors (as-is)
├── docs/              # Design documents and architecture notes
└── COPYING            # LGPL-2.1

Contributing

We are actively looking for existing bisection scripts, wrappers, and tools. Please drop them into contrib/ with a short README describing what they do and how they work.

See the GitHub issues for the current roadmap and discussion topics.

Licence

LGPL-2.1 — see COPYING.