Thanks, It's a great idea!! :) BTW, the Hurd SMP project will be my final degree thesis
El lun., 7 ene. 2019 a las 21:32, Joshua Branson (<jbra...@dismail.de>) escribió: > > Hello, > > I see that we have a google summer of code project page. It would be > pretty cool if we could add suggestions for thesis-es! > > I would like to help with the write-up for some of these issues, but > someone else may need to edit the final product. > > Here are some initial ideas. Some may be bad ideas. > > - Port to other architectures > Risc-V, ARM, etc. This may be a unsustainable. Porting to > another architecture is non-trivial and requires constant investment. > This is a constant and ongoing process. Would a thesis be enough to > keep this going strong? > - Persistance > This is probably way to vague, but it would be a cool research > project! > - Resource management > Currently the Hurd lacks a proper resource management framework. > Perhaps a student could develop a framework so that the Hurd can > manage resources better. > - Spector/Meltdown mitigation > Currently the hurd does not have a method of working around Spector or > Meltdown. Someone could develop such a method. > - Setuid vs. constructor > I found this on the Hurdng wiki page. Perhaps this one is too meta? > Possibly a bad idea? > - more filesystems! > ext3/4, btrfs, xfs, bcachefs, etc. > - realtime > Video players need to run on a realtime operating system to give the > best experience. Currently the Hurd is not a real-time operating > system, but it could become one. > - Mach performance things? > Mach is a first generational microkernel. There is a page talking > about how to simplify the mach message format, but could we do better? > I actually have no idea if this is a good project. I'm just guessing > here. > - 64 bit port > - some cool translator? > - sshfs > - gitfs > > > > -- > Joshua Branson > Sent from Emacs and Gnus > >
