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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 4ed449f7..0e193a25 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -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... |