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authorantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2009-03-10 07:59:15 +0100
committerantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2009-03-10 23:56:50 +0100
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Glue code GSoC task: Rework exercise suggestion
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@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ 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...
+Exercise: Take a driver for some newer piece of hardware (e.g. Intel e1000
+ethernet) from a recent system, and try to port it to run in the existing
+driver framework in GNU Mach. Completing the port might be too involved for the
+exercise; but it's pretty likely that you will find something else to improve
+in the glue code while working on this...