TCP/IP update, possible SMP (GSOC 2014)

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Daniel,

On 2014-02-27 15:14, Daniel Ramirez wrote:
> I've seen the status page but I know Sebastian is spearheading the bulk of the
> work and I'm not exactly sure what would be reasonable/useful as gsoc project.
> What I'm specifically looking at:
>
> Migration away from task variables.

its not that much to do here, maybe one or two weeks of work.

>
> Low level broadcasts.

I am not yet sure if we will need them.  Its also not time consuming, maybe one 
week.

>
> Condition variables seems like a good topic but I want to avoid conflicts with
> other students if possible.

Yes, condition variables are important.

>
> Work that needs to be done within the scheduler API that would enable SMP.

The work on the clustered/partitioned scheduling is on my high priority list, 
so I hope that the scheduler API will be stable before the GSoC starts.  I will 
provide only a fixed priority scheduler.

>
> If I'm missing something that would make for a good project and help get SMP up
> and running, let me know.

Some interesting area also useful for the network stack would be flattened 
device tree support for driver initialization and configuration.

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