Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-06-11 Thread Michael D Kinney
groups.io; l...@nuviainc.com; Kinney, Michael D > > Cc: pedro.falc...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project > > I had done some of the early work in moving content to > edk2-platforms/Features. Just wanted to add my support for maintaining > this

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Kubacki
I had done some of the early work in moving content to edk2-platforms/Features. Just wanted to add my support for maintaining this as a vendor neutral feature there. #4 in the options list is not really what AdvancedFeaturePkg intended for, there's more details here - https://github.com/tiano

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-06-10 Thread Leif Lindholm
edk2-platforms/Features/Ext4Pkg sounds good to me too. / Leif On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 17:38:17 +, Michael D Kinney wrote: > Hi Pedro, > > After thinking about this, I think I would prefer Option (4). > > The proposed landing zone would be a new Ext4Pkg in the edk2-platforms > repositor

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-06-10 Thread Michael D Kinney
Hi Pedro, After thinking about this, I think I would prefer Option (4). The proposed landing zone would be a new Ext4Pkg in the edk2-platforms repository in the Features directory. edk2-platforms/Features/Intel/Ext4Pkg All the features in that directory and not specific to Intel. There are ot

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Brown
On 28/05/2021 18:16, Pedro Falcato wrote: 2) Although I'd love to avoid journaling, which is a matter I'm not too familiar with, I'm not entirely sure what simplifications may be done because for one, what happens if the power cuts during a write? It's unclear to me how a FW filesystem driver m

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-05-28 Thread Pedro Falcato
Hi Michael, Sorry for the delay, I've been quite busy with work these past few days. Yes, it sounds good, I'll keep it on a separate repo until it's actually more or less mature. As for your questions, 1) I'm planning to make this read-write, but most importantly, I want it to be solid. If I

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-05-24 Thread Michael Brown
On 24/05/2021 20:26, Pedro Falcato wrote: Me and my project have been selected for GSoC this year, under Michael Kinney and bret. Thank you for the opportunity to collaborate with you and improve Tianocore! If anyone has any questions, please fire away :) How do I get started? I'd like to find

Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

2021-05-24 Thread Michael D Kinney
Hi Pedro, Here is a link to background materials to get started with EDK II. https://github.com/tianocore-training/Tianocore_Training_Contents/wiki The detailed specifications for the EDK II build systems and coding style are: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-I