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Diffstat (limited to 'community/gsoc')
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn | 19 |
5 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn index 32c8aed8..aaaa68c3 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn @@ -105,3 +105,4 @@ See also the list of [Hurd-related X.org project ideas](http://wiki.x.org/wiki/H [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] +[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 04efe202..e1b8d22e 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 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 @@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ versions, or from one of the free BSD variants. While it would be certainly possible to create custom glue code again, a more sustainable and probably also easier approch is to use -[ddekit](http://demo.tudos.org/dsweeper_tutorial.html) instead -- it already +[[DDE]] instead -- it already does the hard work of providing an environment where the foreign drivers can run, and has the additional advantage of being externally maintained. @@ -32,6 +33,9 @@ programming probably is a must. (No Hurd-specific knowledge is required, though.) This is [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5488]]. +[[open issues/user-space device drivers]]. +[[open issues/device drivers and io systems]]. + Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn index bf75c805..8b493e19 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn @@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ There was also some previous work on [Perl bindings](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#pith), which might serve as a reference if you want to work on Perl. -Possible mentors: Anatoly A. Kazantsev (jim-crow) for Python +Possible mentors: Anatoly A. Kazantsev (anatoly) for Python diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn index 9c703d36..61c8c079 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ is included in the section entitled [[!meta title="Convert Hurd Libraries and Servers to pthreads"]] +[[!tag open_issue_pthread]] + The Hurd was originally created at a time when the [pthreads standard](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/pthread.h.html) didn't exist yet. Thus all Hurd servers and libraries are using the old diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..319d33a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!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="Porting valgrind to the Hurd"]] + +Valgrind is a very powerful tool to debunk bugs. However, in order to do so, it needs deep knowledge of the behavior of kernel traps. In the case of GNU/Hurd, there is a bunch of system calls that GNU Mach handles directly, but also all the MIG RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) which return their result either inline or through memory allocated by the kernel. + +The goal is thus to teach valgrind the exact semantics of all MIG RPCs, most probably in an automatic way from the .defs files. + +As a starter, students can try to teach valgrind a couple of Linux ioctls, as this will make them learn how to use the read/write primitives of valgrind. + +Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) |