yes, tell me when you will be free.... me too... want to go through the wiki site one again..
and i will prepare it. let me know the time and place to meet. thanks Ashok On 7/5/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > > Ashok Kumar wrote: > > > Hi venky and Moinak, > > > > i got a chance to contribute on OLPC program. my interest is on device > > driver, i have some experience also. so please suggest me to do > > something usefully. > > tell me the steps to get things done. > > Excellent news and you have experience in the right domain. > I have not yet gone through the Wiki site fully but from what > I gather device drivers will be an important area for > OpenSolaris to work on this machine. The challenges I see in > the order of difficulty: > > 1) Power Management: This is the single most difficult task. > Every element in the kernel and possibly some applications > must be power-managed. > > 2) Device support: Much of the devices should already be > supported, but we may need to write a few drivers. More > important is tweaking the drivers to ensure that low power > and standby modes are adequately handled. > > 3) Booting from flash: May need to modify Grub. > > 4) Slimming down OpenSolaris: The current OpenSolaris > binary tree has to be stripped down to the bare essentials. > This is not too difficult since OpenSolaris is completely > modular. I believe, it is possible to get a fully functional > OS for the laptop within 150MB - just the OS. > > 5) Slim networking daemons: We will need to write some > of the networking daemons since the laptops can form a > mesh network of peers. > > 6) Understanding OpenSolaris codebase: Medium difficulty > we can meetup, and one of us can give an intro to the entire > codebase. > > 6) Getting to know building and playing with OpenSolaris: > Not a big deal. > > There should be a bunch of other stuff to add to this list. I will > get back with more after I go through the details fully. If you > wish, we can also meetup and discuss this further. > > Regards, > Moinak. > > > > > thanks > > > > Ashok > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20060706/92fbb66b/attachment.html>
