Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:03:10 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: Gokul Krishna <gokulkrishna334@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2015: USB-Front end driver Message-ID: <54FB132E.9070901@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <54FB120C.7080707@selasky.org> References: <CA%2B21acgbXduDse2D0UE6Diqn3E8AX5_3w8JFWZ53_dPjUOFm4w@mail.gmail.com> <54FB120C.7080707@selasky.org>
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On 03/07/15 15:58, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 03/06/15 20:36, Gokul Krishna wrote: >> Hi >> I am interested to take this project for summer of code. >> I currently study masters in Embedded systems at KTH Royal Institute of >> technology. >> I have around 4 years of experience in Embedded system and 2 and half >> years of experience in Embedded Linux board bring up , Device >> drivers and >> Linux Applications developement after my bechelors degree in Electronics >> . >> I have the working knowledge of USB stack implementation in Linux kernel >> and reasonably good understanding of their major USB device classes >> classification with transfer types and commands and their data >> structures . >> So I am interested to do this project , I kindly request you to provide >> more details on what are the expected deliverables i need to >> contribute and >> some documentation links for open source para-virtualised drivers for >> FreeBSD . >> >> So I will come up with Milestone tasks and tollgate design decisions >> in my >> subsequent mails for this project to prepare a project plan. > > Hi, > > Can you explain a bit more what you mean by "USB front end driver"? > > You mean proxying USB devices through TCP/IP? > > --HPS > Hi, Sorry, I see you refer to the summer of code idea document. Do you have any links to some previous USB work you've done? The FreeBSD USB stack is I/O-vectored while the Linux USB one is not. Also the FreeBSD USB stack is dual-mode, both Host and Device? If you want we could arrange a time to talk a bit about a GSoc 2015 project involving USB and FreeBSD. The "mail@" is not valid, and should probably be "hselasky@" :-) --HPS
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