From: Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC '14
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:22:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGGHmKEF-XjQojABseivgfG1za2j0GnDa9V0uVXAWRMmhMq1fQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEKdXi2-tNAYRUXvDuXxT4+=4NiH9GpqMHAK7GwWyArjS5MzPQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Salman Javaid <javaid.salman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven, this USB 3 [0] device driver implementation seems to be an
> interesting project. Is this something you will be interested in?
>
> [0] http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/TODO/index.html
That's going to be a bit much to chew off for a student project. USB
is a non-trivial mess of pain and frustration, even for the
experienced. If someone is getting started with driver work, the most
successful path will likely be implementing a simple part (even if
it's an old one). Ethernet and UARTs come to mind - they tend to be
the simplest. I think at one point there was a call out to get GPIO
working on the Raspberry Pi - that would be a good summer project if
it hasn't been done already. GPIO can be a lot of fun, especially if
you have a couple of protoboards laying around.
Anyhow, when it comes to GSoC it's far more important to focus on
attainable goals - it's a lot more fun for the student (and the
mentor) when something working comes out at the end.
HTH,
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-26 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-25 10:03 Jessica Yu
2014-01-25 15:42 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-25 22:59 ` Conor Williams
2014-01-26 0:09 ` Anthony Sorace
2014-01-26 1:42 ` Conor Williams
2014-01-26 2:14 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-26 2:37 ` Conor Williams
2014-01-26 3:37 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-26 4:00 ` Calvin Morrison
2014-01-26 4:04 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-26 4:15 ` erik quanstrom
2014-01-26 4:18 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-26 4:33 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-26 4:37 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-26 6:25 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-26 4:38 ` Salman Javaid
2014-01-26 6:22 ` Steven Stallion [this message]
2014-01-26 6:24 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-26 6:28 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-26 6:30 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-26 14:43 ` erik quanstrom
2014-01-26 16:15 ` Tristan
2014-01-26 19:17 ` Muhammad Junaid Muzammil
2014-01-30 12:16 ` Steve Simon
2014-04-25 11:54 ` Conor Williams
2014-01-26 7:58 ` Jessica Yu
2014-01-26 22:02 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-27 4:35 ` blstuart
2014-01-27 15:17 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-01-27 16:24 ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-27 17:31 ` Jeff Sickel
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