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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+[[meta title="New Driver Glue Code"]]
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+Although a driver framework in userspace would be desirable, presently the Hurd
+uses kernel drivers in the microkernel,
+[[GNU_Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]. (And changing this would be far beyond a
+GSoC project...)
+
+The problem is that the drivers in GNU Mach are presently old Linux drivers
+(mostly from 2.0.x) accessed through a glue code layer. This is not an ideal
+solution, but works quite OK, except that the drivers are very old. The goal of
+this project is to redo the glue code, so we can use drivers from current Linux
+versions, or from one of the free BSD variants.
+
+Using [ddekit](http://demo.tudos.org/dsweeper_tutorial.html) instead of our
+own glue code can be explored as a possible alternative approach.
+
+This is a doable, but pretty involved project. Experience with driver
+programming under Linux (or BSD) is a must. (No Hurd-specific knowledge is
+required, though.)
+
+This is [[GNU_Savannah_task 5488]].
+
+Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
+
+Exercise: Try porting one driver from Linux 2.6 to run in the old framework.
+The port needn't be elegant or complete; but it would be nice if you could get
+it to work at least partially...