Gsoc participation

Gsoc participation

[Maksym Planeta]

Hello,

I'm a student and I want to participate in Google Summer of Code (Gsoc)
in project related to Linux kernel development.

I've read that kernelnewbies is one of Gsoc project groups [1]. So I
want to know what criteria should I fit to be good enough for taking
part in Gsoc in kernel development project? 

1.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2011

Gsoc participation

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:44:00PM +0200, Maksym Planeta wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a student and I want to participate in Google Summer of Code (Gsoc)
> in project related to Linux kernel development.

Great!

> I've read that kernelnewbies is one of Gsoc project groups [1]. So I
> want to know what criteria should I fit to be good enough for taking
> part in Gsoc in kernel development project? 

The problem with kernel projects in GSoC is that they almost never lend
themselves to good projects.  There have been exceptions in the past,
but note that you are going to have to provide your own proposals for a
project, there will probably not be any kernel projects created by
anyone else for people to wish to take on.

Do you have something in mind that you wish to work on that might be a
good project proposal?

thanks,

greg k-h

Gsoc participation

[Maksym Planeta]

? Sun, 13/03/2011 at 16:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Do you have something in mind that you wish to work on that might be a
> good project proposal?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Unfortunately, I don't have particular project ideas. But I'm interested
in memory management and device drivers. 

My kernel programming experience is limited with academic needs and I
want to improve my skills. That's why I want to take part in Gsoc. 

Thanks, 

Maksym Planeta.

Gsoc participation

[Daniel Baluta]

Hello,

> Unfortunately, I don't have particular project ideas. But I'm interested
> in memory management and device drivers.

What about making kmemleak [1] available on not yet supported architectures?

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37.3/Documentation/kmemleak.txt

Gsoc participation

[Maksym Planeta]

On Mon, 14/03/2011 at 16:29 +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:

> What about making kmemleak [1] available on not yet supported architectures?

This sounds interesting.

There was written that
> Only the ARM and x86 architectures are currently supported.

Does it mean that there isn't support for x86_64 architecture?

Thanks,
-- 
Maksym Planeta <mcsim.planeta@gmail.com>

Gsoc participation

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

> There was written that
>> Only the ARM and x86 architectures are currently supported.
>
> Does it mean that there isn't support for x86_64 architecture?
>

Hello Maksym,

The old i386 and x86_64 archs where unificated and called x86 to
reduce code duplication. So basically they are the same.

Best regards,

-- 
-----------------------------------------
Javier Mart?nez Canillas
(+34) 682 39 81 69
PhD Student in High Performance Computing
Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS)
Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Gsoc participation

[Denis Kirjanov]

Also uml (user mode linux) doesn't work on many architectures.
Actually I've started porting it to PowerPC...

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<martinez.javier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There was written that
>>> Only the ARM and x86 architectures are currently supported.
>>
>> Does it mean that there isn't support for x86_64 architecture?
>>
>
> Hello Maksym,
>
> The old i386 and x86_64 archs where unificated and called x86 to
> reduce code duplication. So basically they are the same.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------
> Javier Mart?nez Canillas
> (+34) 682 39 81 69
> PhD Student in High Performance Computing
> Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS)
> Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona
> Barcelona, Spain
>
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-- 
Regards,
Denis

Gsoc participation

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:19:21PM +0200, Maksym Planeta wrote:
> ? Sun, 13/03/2011 at 16:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Do you have something in mind that you wish to work on that might be a
> > good project proposal?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have particular project ideas. But I'm interested
> in memory management and device drivers. 

That's a _huge_ range of interests :)

> My kernel programming experience is limited with academic needs and I
> want to improve my skills. That's why I want to take part in Gsoc. 

There are plenty of things you can do today, without needing GSoC to
improve your skills with working in the kernel.  See the kernelnewbies
wiki for lots of ideas and suggestions on this.

Best of luck,

greg k-h