{"id":217085,"date":"2026-02-24T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/making-linux-fly-siebel-school-researchers-work-on-aviation-certification-for-the-linux-kernel-siebel-school-of-computing-and-data-science\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:50:09","slug":"making-linux-fly-siebel-school-researchers-work-on-aviation-certification-for-the-linux-kernel-siebel-school-of-computing-and-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/making-linux-fly-siebel-school-researchers-work-on-aviation-certification-for-the-linux-kernel-siebel-school-of-computing-and-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Linux fly: Siebel School researchers work on aviation certification for the Linux kernel | Siebel School of Computing and Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siebelschool.illinois.edu\/news\/linux-kernel-fly-boeing\">Making Linux fly: Siebel School researchers work on aviation certification for the Linux kernel | Siebel School of Computing and Data Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siebelschool.illinois.edu\/news\/linux-kernel-fly-boeing\">https:\/\/siebelschool.illinois.edu\/news\/linux-kernel-fly-boeing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 18:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"siebelschool.illinois.edu\">siebelschool.illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"headline\">In work awarded a best paper at the 2025 Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science graduate student Wentao Zhang and his collaborators at Boeing developed safety-testing infrastructure for the Linux kernel, advancing the goal of certification for commercial aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Adobe Stock \/ Ralf<\/p>\n<p>Linux is a free and open-source\u200a operating system kernel.<\/p>\n<p>Linux, a free and open-source\u200a operating system kernel, is used in many computer systems from large-scale data centers to mobile Android devices. Its popularity and active development community make Linux a strong candidate for use in the aviation industry. However, it is necessary to rigorously evaluate and certify the safety of Linux based on regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and The Boeing Company have taken the first steps to evaluating and certifying Linux for aviation, developing a specialized testing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The status of their work was presented at the 2025 Digital Avionics Systems Conference, where the paper \u201cAn Open-Source Structural Coverage Tool for DO-178C Compliance\u201d was awarded first place in \u201cThe Best of Conference\u201d Awards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wentao Zhang\" width=\"200\" src=\"\n\n<p>Wentao Zhang<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; loading=&#8221;lazy&#8221;\/Wentao Zhang<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to \u2018make Linux fly,\u2019 and the first step is to ensure that the kernel meets safety standards,\u201d said Ph.D. student and lead author <strong>Wentao Zhang<\/strong>. \u201cWe are working on measuring the test adequacy of the Linux kernel code to understand the gaps. Our work with Boeing researchers has resulted in an infrastructure that can help perform mandated safety tests on Linux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhang is co-advised by computer science professors Darko Marinov and Tianyin Xu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWentao\u2019s work is a great example that shows the real-world research impacts of our students.\u201d Xu said,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siebelschool.illinois.edu\/news\/linux-kernel-fly-boeing\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Linux fly: Siebel School researchers work on aviation certification for the Linux kernel |&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/siebelschool.illinois.edu\/_sitemanager\/viewphoto.aspx?id=118910&s=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-217085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217087,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217085\/revisions\/217087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}