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Diffstat (limited to 'community/gsoc')
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn | 3 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 1771756e..db1816c9 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This is [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5488]]. [[open issues/user-space device drivers]]. [[open issues/device drivers and io systems]]. -The most promising approach for getting newer drivers seems to be the [[Rump_Kernel]]: +The most promising approach for getting newer drivers seems to be the [[Rump_kernel]]: it already does the hard work of providing an environment where the foreign drivers can run, and offers the additional benefit of being externally maintained. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn index 40d1ad67..4764a6d7 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ drivers for wireless chips, which are old drivers from an old version of linux. lwip for a wifi connection on more modern hardware, one would also need modern device drivers to access the internet. The promising approach to this is using a rump kernel. This is essentially the New Driver Framework google summer of -code project idea. +code project idea. Hopefully, one day soon the Hurd project will completely replace pfinit +with lwip. A true hurdish network stack will use a set of [[hurd/translator]] processes, each implementing a different protocol layer. This way not only the |