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| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/meetings.mdwn | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/meetings/fosdem_2010.mdwn | 159 |
6 files changed, 185 insertions, 2 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..19a1cab4 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ 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 +[[open issues/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 +32,9 @@ 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/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) diff --git a/community/meetings.mdwn b/community/meetings.mdwn index 9c88418e..84a2c1a2 100644 --- a/community/meetings.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings.mdwn @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ is included in the section entitled # Upcoming + * [[FOSDEM 2010]] * [[Self-organised]] # Past diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2010.mdwn b/community/meetings/fosdem_2010.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0cd882a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2010.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 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="FOSDEM 2010"]] + +<http://fosdem.org/2010> + +FOSDEM will take place on February 6th/7th at the Université Libre de +Bruxelles. + + +# Who And When + +[[!table class="table_style_1" data=""" +"Name","Attending","Arrival","Return","Share room with us" +"Andrei Barbu","?","","","" +"Arne Babenhauserheide","?","","","" +"[[Bas Wijnen|baswijnen]]","?","","","" +"Carl Fredrik Hammar","?","","","" +"Colin Leitner","?","","","" +"Emilio Pozuelo Monfort","?","","","" +"Flavio Cruz","?","","","" +"[[Gianluca Guida|GianlucaGuida]]","?","","","" +"Guillem Jover","?","","","" +"Madhusudan C.S.","?","","","" +"Marcus Brinkmann","?","","","" +"[[Michael Banck|MichaelBanck]]","?","","","" +"Neal Walfield","plans to go","","","" +"Olaf Buddenhagen","?","","","" +"Pino Toscano","?","","","" +"[[Samuel Thibault|SamuelThibault]]","?","","","" +"Sergiu Ivanov","no","n/a","n/a","n/a" +"[[Soeren Schulze|SoerenSchulze]]","?","","","" +"[[Stefan Siegl|stesie]]","?","","","" +"[[Thomas Schwinge|tschwinge]]","plans to go","","","" +"Zheng Da","?","","","" +"""]] + +--- + +/!\ The remainder of this page has not yet been updated for 2010. + +--- + +# Accommodation + +(Large) evening counts: + +[[!table class="table_style_1" data=""" + , Bas, Gianluca, Marcus, Michael, Neal, Olaf, Samuel, Soeren, Thomas, Total +Thu 21, , 1? , *<strike>1</strike>*, , , , 1 , , *<strike>1</strike>*, *<strike>4</strike>* 2 +Fri 22, 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 ,10 +Sat 23, 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 ,10 +Sun 24, 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , *<strike>1</strike>*, 1 , *<strike>10</strike>* 9 +"""]] + +## The Moon Hotel + +Samuel booked rooms at The Moon Hotel, Rue de la Montagne 4B + +- one triple room for the night of Thirsday 21 +- two double rooms and two triple rooms for the nights of Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24. +(these were the last rooms of the hotel) + +i.e. 3+10*3 nights for a total cost of 1104€, which makes 33.5€/night. + +in each room there is a double bed, so some people will have to be "couples". + +Breakfast is included, there is hotspot wifi + +check-in can be between 13:00 and 00:00, departure is before 11:00 + + +## A-XL flathotel + +<http://www.axlflathotel.be/fr/tarifs.html> + + +## Youth hostel _Bruegel_ + +<http://www.vjh.be/jeugdherbergen/brussel/mainE.htm> + +Heilige Geeststraat 2 +1000 Brussels +Phone: +32(0)2 511 04 36 +Fax: +32(0)2 512 07 11 +<brussel@vjh.be> + +[Map via Google maps](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Heilige+Geeststraat+2,+1000+Brussels,+Belgium&sll=50.846056,4.344578&sspn=0.022599,0.086517&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&ll=50.843942,4.351444&spn=0.0113,0.043259&iwloc=cent). +[Map via Map24](http://link2.map24.com/?street0=Heilige%20Geeststraat&zip0=1000&city0=Br%FCssel&state0=&country0=be&name0=&lid=43c26f81&ol=de-de). + +Been there in 2006 and 2007. It was okay. + +Rooms at ~ 18.60€ + +gaah, Full! + +<!-- +[[SamuelThibault]] booked rooms at ~ 18.60€ there: + +[[!table class="table_style_1" data=""" +"Night of...","Persons" +"2007-02-22","<strike>7</strike>**6**" +"2007-02-23","10" +"2007-02-24","11" +"2007-02-25","<strike>9</strike>**8**" +"""]] + +i.e including sdschulze, who hereby confirms +--> + +We need someone to get the keys before +20:00. Reservations last until 16:00, so either he gets the keys before 16:00, +or we just need to call for confirming the reservation + +[[I|tschwinge]] seem to remember something that in 2007 the Madame at the +reception wasn't really happy with us arriving later than 16:00 even with +having had confirmed that via a phone call. + + +## Sleep Well Youth Hostel + +<http://www.sleepwell.be/> + +Overbooked + +## Youth Hostel Can Gogh + +<http://chab.be/> + +No under 18-ers and over 35-ers allowed. + + +## Auberge de Jeunesse Jacques Brel + +<http://www.laj.be/html/fr/auberges/brel/aubergesbrel_01.htm>. + +Samuel knows that one and liked it. antrik too :-) + +Unfortunately it's already full + + +# What + +There will be a keysigning party, see <http://fosdem.org/2008/keysigning>. + +We don't have a Developers Room at FOSDEM. + +There is again a pre-FOSDEM meeting on Friday night, see <http://fosdem.org/2008/beerevent>. + +Both Neal and Bas would be happy to show their recent kernel works. |