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| author | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2009-03-16 16:42:23 +0100 |
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| committer | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2009-03-18 19:23:02 +0100 |
| commit | a0891d42f7d5ba585e787fbf2a8a0a720ee4ff15 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bd5b9691e42a523751780fa558ddbd5050e9ed5 /community | |
| parent | a9e1a14843e8230a424d6d8093be3cccbc147fce (diff) | |
Sound support GSoC task: Rework exercise ideas
Make a generic remark on what the exercise should involve.
Only briefly mention porting drivers as a possible exercise task; add an
alternative suggestion (random device).
Diffstat (limited to 'community')
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound.mdwn | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound.mdwn index e22a7e19..39c4241a 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound.mdwn @@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ in user-space is feasible. <!-- TODO. Elaborate. --> Possible mentors: ? -Exercise: Take a newer driver for a device in one of the subsystems we already -implement (disk or network) from a newer Linux version, or some other operating -system, and try to port it so that it runs in the existing driver framework. -The port needn't be elegant or complete; but it would be nice if you could get -it to work at least partially... +Exercise: This project requires kernel (driver framework) hacking as well as +some Hurd server hacking; so the exercise should involve either of these, or +even both. You could for example port some newer driver to run in the existing +framework (see the [[device_driver|driver_glue_code]] project descrption), or +try to make some fix(es) to the [unfinished random device +implementation](http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6088) created by Michael +Casadevall. |