Re: Yet Another GSoC Project Ideas Post

[Samuel Thibault]

Mohammed Gamal, le Fri 21 Mar 2008 19:26:54 +0200, a écrit :
> 2- Driver Glue code
> The idea description is quite obvious, again the question here is
> again of experience. I have basic knowledge about Linux device
> drivers, do you think it'd be feasible to apply for this one?

You'd have a fairly big learning curve I think.  The kind of things
that will be needed are e.g. to work on the PCI enumeration etc.

> 4- Porting Hurd Servers from Cthreads to Pthreads
> I have some experience working with Pthreads under GNU/Linux. But does
> the project require knowledge about the internals of Pthreads (i.e. Is
> the student supposed to work on the HURD pthreads implementation), or
> is it only required from the students to port to Pthreads directly?

There shouldn't be any need to dive into the pthread implementation.

Samuel