[ug-bosug] Fwd: OLPC Developer's Program

[Ashok Kumar]

yes, tell me when you will be free....

me too... want to go through the wiki site one again..

and i will prepare it.

let me know the time and place to meet.

thanks
Ashok

On 7/5/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Ashok Kumar wrote:
>
> > Hi venky and Moinak,
> >
> > i got a chance to contribute on OLPC program. my interest is on device
> > driver, i have some experience also. so please suggest me to do
> > something usefully.
> > tell me the steps to get things done.
>
>   Excellent news and you have experience in the right domain.
>   I have not yet gone through the Wiki site fully but from what
>   I gather device drivers will be an important area for
>   OpenSolaris to work on this machine. The challenges I see in
>   the order of difficulty:
>
>   1) Power Management: This is the single most difficult task.
>    Every element in the kernel and possibly some applications
>    must be power-managed.
>
>   2) Device support: Much of the devices should already be
>    supported, but we may need to write a few drivers. More
>    important is tweaking the drivers to ensure that low power
>    and standby modes are adequately handled.
>
>   3) Booting from flash: May need to modify Grub.
>
>   4) Slimming down OpenSolaris: The current OpenSolaris
>    binary tree has to be stripped down to the bare essentials.
>    This is not too difficult since OpenSolaris is completely
>    modular. I believe, it is possible to get a fully functional
>    OS for the laptop within 150MB - just the OS.
>
>   5) Slim networking daemons: We will need to write some
>    of the networking daemons since the laptops can form a
>   mesh network of peers.
>
>   6) Understanding OpenSolaris codebase: Medium difficulty
>    we can meetup, and one of us can give an intro to the entire
>    codebase.
>
>   6) Getting to know building and playing with OpenSolaris:
>   Not a big deal.
>
>   There should be a bunch of other stuff to add to this list. I will
>   get back with more after I go through the details fully. If you
>   wish, we can also meetup and discuss this further.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Ashok
> >
> >
>
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