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

[Moinak Ghosh]

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
>  
>  
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Jim Gettys* <jg at laptop.org <mailto:jg at laptop.org>>
> Date: Jul 5, 2006 5:53 PM
> Subject: Re: OLPC Developer's Program
> To: Ashok Kumar <viswanathan.ashok at gmail.com 
> <mailto:viswanathan.ashok at gmail.com>>
> Cc: developer at laptop.org <mailto:developer at laptop.org>
>
> Lindsay,
>
> Please ask Brightstar to ship Ashok one machine.
>                  Regards,
>                     - Jim
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 13:13 +0530, Ashok Kumar wrote:
> >       Hi ,
> >
> >        This is Ashok kumar. i am interested in linux platform and also
> > open solaris.
> >
> >thanks
> *>*Ashok
> >
> --
> Jim Gettys
> One Laptop Per Child
>
>
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