The big thing I'd like to see as a GSOC project, and which I think is doable, is a first-class set of drivers for the beagle and/or IGEP.
The beagle is cheap and would be a very nice terminal. It's close on some fronts. We really need video. USB is not there yet. There are other problems. At the same time, Geoff has done a great job of giving us a foundation from which we can work. It's interesting but watching the way things are going, ARM-based designs are really taking off. I just visited a vendor who told me they're churning out just one type of CPU at 1M a month and they're growing. I think the opportunities for doing good Plan 9 work on ARM are going to grow quite a bit. It may well prove a better platform for the future than PCs, which are increasingly closed and esoteric. But I think the drivers would not be too hard, I've looked at (e.g.) the U-boot video driver and think it could go into Plan 9 without too much trouble. I don't see this as a super-hard project and it would provide us with a nice platform. ron
