Josh Tolley wrote:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the intent of your email, but I'll bite.
I'm a CS student (nearly graduated) with a job, family, and
programming projects on the side, but one of my dreams would be to be
able to, say, write drivers (provided hardware manufacturers ever
release docs...) and I'd love to learn how. My first goal, though,
would have to be getting more proficient in C and making sure I can
use it effectivley on OpenBSD.
So as I said, perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree, but where do I
start? What resources are there? I love the man pages, but so far as
I've seen anyway, there's not a place where I can begin to say "Here's
step 1 of 1549 in writing a driver". Nor is there a place I've seen
that says, "This needs to be written, wouldn't take tons of
experience, but takes time no one has wanted to spend on it -- go to".
Can you offer suggestions?
I appreciate any help you can give, even if it's just "RTFM". Thanks.
-Josh Tolley
On 6/3/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd have no problem coming up with or supervising a few projects for
students like this, unfortunately, they aren't taking other projects
anymore...
-Bob
* Dunceor . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-02 23:45]:
I'm actually tryin to do some of the NetBSD projects to OpenBSD
directly, without caring about the google contest.
I still think it's a good motivation for a student to spend alot of hours on it.
But in the end, nobody should code on suchs projects for the money,
but for the fun.
I got a few plans as I said, I just need to do some research around it.
// Dunceor
On 6/3/05, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Dunceor . wrote:
Ed White wrote:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
Where is OpenBSD ?
why is your email two days late?
Well I think it's a great oppertunity to let a student dive into the
OS and they would probobly continue to work on the project afterwards.
I saw that and missed OpenBSD also.
They had some nice projects over at NetBSD actually.
it's not like a bsd rsync, or a better ffs, or ... wouldn't help openbsd
either.
hell, go do something for openbsd, port to netbsd, claim the money.
--
all we're waiting for is for something worth waiting for
--
Bob Beck Computing and Network Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta
True Evil hides its real intentions in its street address.
I was in the same situation a month ago. So I decided to purchase
"Writing Linux Device Drivers" from OReilly. It have the fundamental
concepts about the subject and simple exambples. So take them and try
to port the examples to OpenBSD. In order to do this, of source, you'll
have to RTFS. But it's fun and you go tiny step by tiny step learning.
