GSOC - LwIP and Jailhouse hypervisor as possible tasks

[Chris Johns]

On 18/03/2016 09:20, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> On Thursday 17 of March 2016 19:49:41 Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 3:47 PM, sane sai charan
>>
>> <sanesaicharan23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>                                ** Anyone mentoring RTEMS port of LWIP
>>> project ? because status of project says no volunteers for this project.
>>
>> We can find someone with sufficient lwIP expertise if needed. There
>> are a few lwIP ports of RTEMS around.
>
> we have workend at company and at university with
> LwIP with porting and drivers writing and updates to RTEMS
> and non RTEMS environment. I would like to see LwIP
> to be the first class citizen in RTEMS

+1

> to offer full
> networking and POSIX compatibility for small RTEMS
> systems which cannot afford full BSD stack.

Nice.

> This means to connect LwIP to RTEMS file handle allocation
> system to allow read(), write(), close() etc functions
> to work with LwIP opened sockets. I have already located
> places of the code which can serve as the base for such work.

Nice.

> I have spoken with Sebastian Huber about this task
> on Embedded World. He thinks that this is too small
> task for full GSoC. I believe that he can do that
> in one or two days, I think that I have chance to do
> that in one or two weeks if I have time. But for student
> with need to understand and analyze the code first it is
> quiet sufficient task and can be combined with test
> preparation and implementation/porting of LwIP driver
> for some architecture. So at the end, it can be reasonable
> task for GSoC.

I would like to see the RSB build lwIP as a package so it can be easy 
for users to get hold of.

> I can send dump of my ideas and links to related
> sources.

Fantastic. Would a wiki page be a better place?

> But if it is selected depends on quality of proposal,
> evaluation, consensus and feeling whole group of mentors.

Yes we a suitable proposal.

> So I offer role of consultant or co-mentor at least
> for this task.

I can help by being a co-mentor with you if you like.

Chris