From 4f15828febdea054993b2c21f62530c17ce3adea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:30:01 +0100 Subject: Update gsoc ideas --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 27 +++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 0f921590..c1850d21 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -27,22 +27,24 @@ This is [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5488]]. [[open issues/user-space device drivers]]. [[open issues/device drivers and io systems]]. -The most promising approach for getting newer drivers seems to be [[DDE]]: +The most promising approach for getting newer drivers seems to be the Rump kernel: it already does the hard work of providing an environment where the foreign drivers can run, and offers the additional benefit of being externally maintained. -DDE also offers the necessary facilities +Rump also offers the necessary facilities for running all drivers in separate userspace processes, which is more desirable than drivers running in the microkernel. -[[Zheng Da|zhengda]] has already done considerable work on this. +Robert Millan worked on a port of the Rump kernel, which allowed to run a sound +driver in userland. This work now needs to be extended. + +[[Zheng Da|zhengda]] has already done considerable work on a similar approach, using [[DDE]] The basic framework for using DDE in the Hurd is present, and network card drivers are already working very well. However, this work isn't fully integrated in the Hurd yet. The additional kernel interfaces that were created for this -are still prototypes, and will need to be reworked. -Also, there is no build system for automatically compiling -all Linux network card drivers in one go. +are still prototypes, and will need to be reworked. This environment can be +reused and polished for Rump. Other types of drivers are missing so far. Support for IDE drivers has been partially implemented, @@ -51,13 +53,10 @@ To fully replace the old in-kernel drivers, further infrastructure will be necessary to make userspace disk drivers usable for the root filesystem. -Some other subsystems are missing or incomplete in DDE itself, -and will require additional work that is not specific to the Hurd implementation. - The goal of this task is to fix at least one of the mentioned major shortcomings: rework the kernel interfaces; -provide a streamlined build system for the drivers; -finish IDE support; +polish the rumpkernel changes; +componentize the rumpkernel elements for sound; or implement support for some other subsystem. @@ -69,13 +68,9 @@ such as memory management for example. Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon), Samuel Thibault (youpi) -Exercise: Get one of the not yet integrated Linux network card drivers to work. -(Note: This should be straightforward, -once you have the framework properly built and set up...) +Exercise: Install and run the current rumpkernel library (librump0) and the corresponding mplayer, get it to run. --- # 2016-02-14, Justus Winter - -`s/dde/rump/g` of course. -- cgit v1.2.3