Hello, I'm an italian student, currently in highschool. I'd like to take part in this year's GSoC under the NetBSD project.
A bit of background: I've been using POSIX OSes for most of my life and recently I started tinkerning a bit on the 3 main BSD operating systems. What caught my attention was how simple it is to port NetBSD to other architectures: I've been playing with RISC-V for some time with SBCs and I instantly wanted to try booting NetBSD on my Pine64 STAR64 board. So after succeffully booting the kernel I started tinkering and I was also amazed at how clean the source code was and so I decided that I'd like to contribute here. I was then reached out by Cristoph who gave me some hints on how to get a glance of the kernel code by tweaking the real-time clock code for x86 and now I think that I can finally submit my actual proposal. Project proposal: I would like to work on the "Userland PCI drivers" project, listed on the NetBSD website, first because while working on hobby kernel projects I managed to learn how the PCI bus works and also because when I learned about rump I found the idea of having drivers running in userspace very cool (I'm a big fan of microkernels as a concept). I'll be on school vacations from June to August, so I'll have a lot of free time and I'd like to work on a big project like this (since it's marked as a 350h project) since it will be a big opportunity to work on a big, enstablished project under someone's guidance for the first time. You can take a look at my GitHub profile (https://github.com/lolzdev) where I have some hobby projects I made in the past years.
