From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 7 15:45:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9848F16A41F for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:45:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tyler@tamu.edu) Received: from smtp-relay.tamu.edu (smtp-relay.TAMU.EDU [165.91.143.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287F143D48 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:45:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tyler@tamu.edu) Received: from [165.91.46.92] (tamulink-0092.vpn.tamu.edu [165.91.46.92]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-relay.tamu.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j87Fjgu6045822 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:45:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tyler@tamu.edu) In-Reply-To: <021401c5b3a5$02a0de40$0201a8c0@pranav> References: <021401c5b3a5$02a0de40$0201a8c0@pranav> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3E4C8712-8637-4DE9-9722-62D28CA47B6A@tamu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "R. Tyler Ballance" Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:45:40 -0500 To: Pranav Peshwe X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project in FreeBSD. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:45:44 -0000 If you run out of ideas, or are looking for something else, try looking at some of the SoC projects that weren't chosen/accepted/etc. http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html Im sure you could expand one of these to cover a final CS project. Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance On Sep 7, 2005, at 7:09 AM, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > Hello, > I am a final year CS student and wish to do a project in the > FBSD kernel or networking domains. > I am a part of a project group of four and we have the project as a > part > of syllabus for the final year. > > Ideas we could think of were : > > 1) Dynamically Configurable IO schedulers and scheduling policy. > - similar to the project mentioned on the SOC page for FBSD. > 2) Creating a program which would save the state of the kernel at > some instant.Then if the kernel panics,the saved state will be > restored. > Especially useful for kernel level development which can cause > frequent > panics. > > Could anybody please comment on the above ideas. > I do not know whether they are already implemented and included in the > mainline distro. > > We would also like to hear about any other ideas related to FBSD. > We would be very happy to contribute our bit to the development of > FBSD. > > TIA. > > Sincere regards, > Pranav.J.Peshwe > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >