On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: > > > > Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me > > which one is available and fell free to add any other project you > > think could help the FreeBSD community in general. > > > -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i would like to develop > > my own fs with journaling, but right now i could even drop the > > dream of my own fs and JUST port the xfs/jfs for FreeBSD.. > > Your own Journaling FS could be intresting, especialy if you licensed it > under a BSD license. > > > any ideas is welcome.... =) > > If you have an intrest in networking, you might look at what it would > take to build a pure netgraph TCP/IP stack. It probably wouldn't > become the default, but it could be very useful for research if the > components where properly seperated. You'd need a routing module, ip > module, and tcp module at least. You'd probably also want to implement > various versions of TCP (tahoe, reno, newreno, vegas, FreeBSD, etc). An > intresting research topic related to that would be building a TCP stack > where it's easy to replace the congestion control algorithm.
How about updating Alpine (alpine.cs.washington.edu) and fixing a lot of its lousy hacks (i.e. the sysinit stuff)? Zero copy BPF? Port the Linux Rockwell/Conexant winmodem support to freebsd? (Tons of laptops have this chipset). http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ > Some one may already be working on this, but an iSCSI implementation > (hopefully both sides) would be cool. > > -- Brooks There are already a couple for FreeBSD and we are examining them for possible integration. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
