GSoC 2012

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Mon Mar 26 00:40:20 UTC 2012


On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> On 03/25/2012 06:48 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>
>> I think the WebKit project would be a decent direction to go in order
>> not to lose the work you already have put in to learning about
>> lwIP/RTEMS.  You can include the lwIP port, and work on developing the
>> Kit infrastructure for handling packages external to RTEMS. lwIP is a
>> good project for it. And there are other networking-related projects
>> that could be included in the WebKit.
>
> We need to rename "WebKit" if you don't mean http://www.webkit.org/. :)
>
Sorry I should have included a link. Just prepend RTEMS :)

>
>
>> -Gedare
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Polulak<kpolulak at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Ultimately, I suppose it's up to you guys whether the lwIP port is a
>>> suitable project. I'm just worried if it may be too late to reconsider.
>>> Up
>>> until now, I've completely devoted my entire spring break to learning
>>> about
>>> and trying to design this project. If it does get tossed (which I'm
>>> guessing
>>> it already has at this point), then I'm pretty much starting over at the
>>> same time I'm supposed to be developing a proposal for a project I don't
>>> have yet. Even if the project didn't get tossed, I don't want to spend my
>>> summer working on something useless that there's no need for and will
>>> just
>>> end up in the bit bucket.
>>>
>>> Sure I'd love to work with everyone else on the BSD stack but to be
>>> honest,
>>> I have zero experience with it. I do have a copy of TCP/IP Illustrated
>>> Volume 2 that explains all the internals. However, it's such a tremendous
>>> subject that I'm not completely sure I could familiarize myself with it
>>> in
>>> the little amount of time I have left to a point where I could accurately
>>> and confidently break the project into smaller tasks and develop a
>>> timeline.
>>>
>>> I'll spend some time looking into the current state of the BSD stack
>>> project. I don't want to disappoint anybody but I'm a little unsure of
>>> whether I have enough knowledge about it to take it on as a project.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa)
>>> - http://cybercrud.net
>>>
>>>
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