Am Mittwoch, den 29.02.2012, 21:48 +0100 schrieb Norman Feske:
Hi,
Would it be to daring to propose implementation/port of Intel Wireless (iwlagn) plus WPA supplicant?
That may be a huge task. What about porting a non-trivial application to Noux, e.g. binutils?
My gut also tells me that the whole Wifi package is certainly too heavy to lift during a GSoC project. But maybe we would split this task into smaller pieces?
Binutils and GCC are actually almost there (just take a look into the ports repository). According to our road map, those tools will be ready to use on Genode no later than in August. So this would rule out this topic anyway.
Cool. Didn't notice. What about Emacs? :-D Or support for any reasonable "safe" language that is not C++ to write native Genode applications.
Another project idea I had today was a statistical profiling/tracing tool. As application scenarios grow in complexity, I expect that we will increasingly ask the question, through which window all our CPU cycles went. It would be great to have tooling support that gives us the answer. Honestly, I don't know where to start for investigating this topic (should we look into gprof? dtrace? ?).
Whole system statistical profiling might not be possible without kernel support, which makes this hard given the number of kernels Genode runs on.
Julian