Re: Yet Another GSoC Project Ideas Post

[Mohammed Gamal]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks Samuel :)