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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/hardware_libs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/hardware_libs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index c30505cb..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/hardware_libs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Stub Implementations of Hardware Specific Libraries"]] - -Many programs use special libraries to access certain hardware devices, -like libusb, libbluetooth, libraw1394, libiw-dev (though there already is a -wireless-tools-gnumach package), etc. - -The Hurd presently doesn't support these devices. Nevertheless, all of these -programs could still be built -- and most of them would indeed be useful -- -without actual support of these hardware devices, kdebase for instance. However, -as the libraries are presently not available for Hurd, the programs can't be -easily built in Debian GNU/Hurd due to missing dependencies. - -This could be avoided by providing dummy libraries, which the programs could -link against, but which wouldn't actually do any hardware access: instead, they -would simply return appropriate error codes, reporting that no devices were -found. - -There are two possible approaches for providing such stub libraries: Either -implement replacement libraries providing the same API as the real ones; or -implement dummy backends for the Hurd in the proper libraries. Which approach -to prefer probably depends on the structure of the various libraries. - -The goal of this project is to create working dummy libraries/backends for the -mentioned devices, and get them into Debian GNU/Hurd. It shouldn't require any -special previous knowledge, though some experience with build systems would be -helpful. Finishing this task will probably require learning a bit about the -hardware devices in question, and about Debian packaging. - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: Get one of the libraries to compile on Debian GNU/Hurd. It doesn't -need to report reasonable error codes yet -- just make it build at all for now. |