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NetBSD Summer of Code Summary

Submitted by Jeremy
on October 9, 2007 - 7:22am

Mark Weinem offered a summary of NetBSD's six 2007 Summer of Code development projects. The projects included: the Automated Testing Framework, "the goal of the ATF project was to develop a testing framework to easily define test cases and run them in a completely automated way"; porting ZFS, "the primary goal of this project was to port volume emulation (ZVOL) functionality in order to mount ZFS file systems"; QoS framework for NetBSD's virtual memory system, "for delay sensitive systems such as streaming multimedia servers and back-end database systems, servicing the reader processes in a timely fashion is more important than the servicing the writers"; kernel file systems in userspace, as a result of the project, "almost all NetBSD kernel file systems can be compiled, mounted and run in userspace"; and hardware monitoring, "the aim of this project was to develop a kernel event notification framework to notify userland of hardware changes e.g. a new USB device being added". Mark added:

"NetBSD has been involved in the Google Summer of Code since its conception in 2005. This year we were glad to once again have the oppertunity to introduce six students to our operating system, to Open Source software development and get them sponsored by Google to work on projects defined by the NetBSD developers."

From: Mark Weinem <weinem@...>
Subject: NetBSD and the Google Summer of Code 2007 Summary
Date: Oct 8, 8:59 pm 2007


NetBSD has been involved in the Google Summer of Code since its conception

in 2005. This year we were glad to once again have the oppertunity to

introduce six students to our operating system, to Open Source

software development and get them sponsored by Google to work on projects

defined by the NetBSD developers:


Julio M. Merino Vidal implemented an "Automated Testing Framework"

(mentored by Martin Husemann):


        http://www.netbsd.org/~jmmv/atf


Oliver Gould started to port the Solaris ZFS file system to NetBSD

(mentored by Dieter Baron)


        http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/zfs


Sumantra R. Kundu started to implement a "Framework For Enforcing QoS

Inside the NetBSD UVM" (mentored by William Stouder-Studenmund):


        http://crewman.uta.edu/~skundu/gsoc_2007.html


Thanks to Antti Kantee's project it is now possibe to run "Kernel File

Systems in Userspace" (mentored by William Stouder-Studenmund)


        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.html


Jörg Sonnenberger improved the pkgsrc build system (mentored by Johnny

C. Lam):


	 http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/xpkgsrc


and Jáchym Holeček ported Hardware Monitoring and HAL to NetBSD

(mentored by Quentin Garnier):


	http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/hal


Please read the full press release for more details :


	http://netbsd.org/foundation/press/soc2007-summary.html


We thank Google for the opportunity to participate in the Summer of Code

2007. This helps to ensure the continual improvement and innovation of

NetBSD. Congratulations and many thanks to all involved students and

mentors for the great work. We hope that the students will continue

their commitment for NetBSD.

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