Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 11:39:17 +0000 From: Alexander Chernikov <melifaro@freebsd.org> To: obiwac <obiwac@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, mmokhi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2023 project ideas Message-ID: <6A5AFC7F-DF90-4B08-A88A-7512D1C930CE@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN8-kNX7to%2B9O6gouzJQh74RKWNdUBEc4nUW292%2BrJzdMu6OrA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN8-kNX7to%2B9O6gouzJQh74RKWNdUBEc4nUW292%2BrJzdMu6OrA@mail.gmail.com>
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[adding bz@ and mmokhi@ to the cc] > On 8 Mar 2023, at 09:19, obiwac <obiwac@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! Hi! > > I'm a CS student from Belgium and I'm interested in participating in > Google Summer of Code as a FreeBSD contributor. I've been using > FreeBSD for a bit over two years and I've already upstreamed a few > patches over that time, but I'd like to give back in a little more of > a meaningful way :) That’s awesome! > > More specifically, I was thinking of proposing work on the Linux KPI > for compiling network drivers on FreeBSD once the applications open > (see SummerOfCodeIdeas: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Add_support_for_building_Linux-only_network_drivers). > > I see netlink was the subject of a previous SoC project by Sean Ng > (and their mentor melifaro@), so it would seem at least some part of > this has already been done. Would someone potentially be interested in > mentoring such a project (perhaps mmokhi@ or melifaro@)? Is there > maybe something you'd like to add on top of what's currently on the > ideas page wrt to this? Netlink indeed landed in FreeBSD 13/14. I’ll leave the reply to Bjoern as he certainly have more context on the improvement opportunities in the LinuxKPI space. > > I'm posting this message is mostly to gauge overall interest in this > idea in particular or if I'd be better off focusing my efforts on > something else... Personally I'd be very interested in working on this > if only for personal use, but maybe there's something I'd be equally > interested in which is more useful to more people ;) > > Kind regards, > Aymeric > /Alexander
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