Re: Google Summer of Code project ideas

["Garrett D'Amore" <garrett_damore%tadpole.com@localhost>]

Jan Schaumann wrote:
> 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.
>   

If anyone wants to pick up the flash stuff, I'd prefer to have them
coordinate with me.  I'm in the middle of designing a framework for
non-volatile memories, and while I don't intend to provide all of the
semantics that we'd like, it would be nicer to have these semantics
added to my framework or cooperate with my framework than to create an
entirely new thing, I think.

    -- Garrett


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