From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:22:24 -0600 Message-ID: From: Steven Stallion To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC '14 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b5cf00d0-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Salman Javaid 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