Hello, As you are probably aware, the NetBSD project will once again participate in the Google Summer of Code 2006. We are currently compiling a list of possible projects, but seeing how our userbase communicates primarily via our mailing lists, I thought I should bring your attention to these projects. If you are interested in participating in the Summer of Code as as student, it would be best if you would start discussing your proposal on this list. You also want to take a look at http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.html for a list of questions you should be able to answer in your application. The projects relating to topics on this mailing list are: * NetBSD port of Qtopia Core Open Source Edition -- Qtopia Core (formerly QT/Embedded) is a framework for building single-application devices on embedded systems. Currently this only runs on Linux, but many current and future NetBSD systems would benefit from having a light-weight replacement for X11 provided by Qtopia Core. See also http://www.trolltech.com/download/qtopia/coregpl.html * Implement NetBSD block device driver for NAND flash chips * Flash translation layer -- Implement flash-translation layer to handle bad-block management/wear leveling such that a FFS filesystem could be placed on above NAND flash chip. * Compressed Cache System -- Implement NetBSD version of compressed cache system (for low-memory devices): http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/ The complete list of project ideas is available online at http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html -Jan P.S.: Discussions (and implementations) of any of these projects is of course welcome regardless of whether or not you are a student or intend to apply for the SoC. :-) -- What do you mean, why has it got to be built? It's a bypass. Got to build bypasses.
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